Hi everyone,
This is an every-other-Thursdays on which I don’t normally post but I thought I’d use it to share various bits of news before I (first bit of news) go off to Colorado this weekend to do some events:
Denver, Thursday, September 18: The Lighthouse presents Illumination 2025: A Literary Soiree. I’ll be doing an on-stage Q&A with the wonderful writer Vauhini Vara. whose latest book,“ Searches (Pantheon, 2025) is a work of journalism and memoir about “how big technology companies exploit human communication and how we’re complicit in this.”
Golden, Friday, September 19: I return to my alma mater, the Colorado School of Mines, for a Campus Talk at 5:30 pm. Q&A and book-signing to follow. Full schedule and details here. The talk will be in Friedhoff Hall in the Green Center. Registration is free and open to the public.
Denver, September 20: A lecture/talk to the Lighthouse Book Project on “Writing Books Now: Why?” The Book Project is a two-year, MFA-like program whose goal is to help its attendees, from all over the world, finish a first book. The organizers tell me: “Right now, there’s a waitlist if they want to come in person—we might be able to open a few spots.” Followed by a Q/A and signing.
Hope to see some of you there.
And speaking of schedules, here’s my wife Paula’s upcoming travel for her novel “Starting from Here,” which I recently posted about here.
I’m very proud to announce that Aurora Huiza, a former student of ours at Syracuse, has just had a story published, and in the great Paris Review, no less. It’s a lovely story, called “Eiffel Towers.” For the next week, you can read free here (and thanks for giving us that privilege, Paris Review). Congratulations, Aurora!
And last but no least, I also wanted to remind all of our free subscribers that there’s still time to get in on wild celebration party going on behind the paywall, in honor of Samanta Schweblin’s amazing story “A Fabulous Animal.” My essay on the story, and hundreds of insightful comments on it, are here.
Thanks for being here and hope all is going well in your world.
George
I really enjoyed “Eiffel Towers.” I liked the vintage eyeglasses setting and the people the protagonist met along the way. Such good writing. It felt honest and real.
I loved Paula’s book, The Distance Home. It feels weird using just her first name. But it felt weirder adding her last. So, here we are.
Anyway, I’m excited to read this next book of hers.