Friday Night in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends event at Community Bookstore at 6 pm this Friday 9/27

Here’s hoping that this year’s National Book Critics Circle/Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event at Community Bookstore will not be subject to a state of emergency flood! Last year, while trains were suspended between Brooklyn and Manhattan, Megha Majumdar, Zain Khalid and precious few of us gathered together to discuss the challenge of writing after publishing an acclaimed debut novel. This year, Zain is joining me again with National Book Award winner Tess Gunty as fellow Leonard Prize finalists to discuss what it’s like to write in the wake of their highly successful first books. This will be a very fun conversation! Please join us! We will be at Community Bookstore at 6 pm this Friday, September 27th. Come and buy books, stay to chat.

I’ll keep this short and hope that I’ll see you this Friday, but since I last wrote you, I’ve published a number of pieces. Here are some highlights:

For the Boston Globe, I wrote about Sally Rooney’s INTERMEZZO.

For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote about Rachel Kushner’s CREATION LAKE.

For the Boston Globe, I wrote about Gayl Jones’s THE UNICORN WOMAN.

For the New York Times Book Review, I wrote about Silvia Moreno Garcia’s THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME.

For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote a reappraisal of J.M. Coetzee’s DISGRACE on the 25th anniversary of its publication.

For the Boston Globe, I wrote about Olivia Laing’s THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME.

For the Los Angeles Times, I wrote about Rufi Thorpe’s MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES.