Cliff Chase’s new memoir Tooth Fairy: Parents, Lovers, and Other Wayward Deities goes on sale next week, and Lisa Cohen (author of All We Know), Mark Krotov (an editor at Overlook Press), and I will be helping him read from it at Book Court, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn on Friday, February 7, at 7pm. Please join us!
Month: January 2014
A review on the Lambda Literary website, and a few other notices
On the Lambda Literary website, there’s a very generous review by James McDonald of my novel Necessary Errors. Much appreciated!
There were also some nice notices of the book recently by Jim Santel (“an unhurried, meditative story”), by Cassie Marketos (“enthusiastic, relatable, and [ahem] relevant naiveté”), by Monika Woods (“captures something special, something essential and good about life and youth and experience”), and on the blog Half Step, Whole Step (“a mood characterized by a simultaneous waiver of rules and a basic imminence”). The book appeared on best-of-2013 lists at Salon, where it was cited by Mark Athitakis, Eric Banks, and Kathryn Schulz; on the podcast Chimera Obscura, where it was cited by Willard Spiegelman; on the blog Wormbook; and on the website The Nerdist.
The butler and the whistleblower
Over at The New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog, I’ve posted an essay about what happens to a personality that outlives the socioeconomic order that formed it.