Book Expo America and quasi hiatus...
For all you movers and shakers, galley-whores and product pimps, cheap-wine-swilling-bad-coffee-burping BEA attendees...the offical Soft Skull program for Book Expo America...
Friday, May 19th, 10:00-11:00am: Laurel Snyder signs Half/Life: Jewish Tales from Interfaith Homes, which Publishers Weekly hails as “engaging, funny, and provocative.” Snyder is a frequent contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered and an editor of the award-winning magazine Killing the Buddha.
Saturday, May 20th, 11:00am-Noon: Australian author Delia Falconer signs her second novel The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, the follow up to her debut The Service of Clouds (FSG, 1998). Falconer is one of the top writers of her generation in Australia, but virtually unknown here, so far. Her new novel is a fresh look at Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn...through the eyes of the soldiers who did not go to his aid. And, as Colleen Mondor describes it in this month's Bookslut, “Lost Thoughts is part of a tiny field of books that reach inside the minds of men at war—of men of war—and seeks to explain and define and recognize them as the conflicted and confused and heroic and cowardly creatures that they are.” “A splendid and absorbing novel” says Jim Harrison and "a timeless work of human history," says Barry Lopez, National Book Award winner. Note: Delia Falconer will be available all three days of BEA to meet and chat.
Saturday, May 20th, 1:00-2:00pm: Roger Allen Skipper signs galleys of the only debut novel Soft Skull is publishing this year! Tear Down the Mountain is an epic love story set in modern day Appalachia by a laborer and luthier who never left the mountains. “Tear Down the Mountain is a welcome addition to fiction set in contemporary Appalachia. This book is terrific. Roger Skipper knows the landscape, the people, their values, how they feel, and what they say to each other. These characters live real lives in hard circumstances in a land that’s under assault. I loved it.”—Chris Offutt, author of Kentucky Straight
And don’t forget to pick up a galley of American Genius, Lynne Tillman’s first novel since the 1998 NBCC Finalist No Lease on Life!
Also, for the first time since 2001, I won't be able to go myself (off getting married, as I promised Jenny D I would say on the blog, tucked away here down at the bottom...), so be nice to Kristin Pulkkinen, our amazing Publicity Director, and go get books signed, and introduce yourself to Delia Falconer who came all the way from Australia to be at BEA...(And if you don't see her at BEA, check out her touring schedule in Philly, Portland and Seattle...)
Back in three weeks!!!