Caleb Crain

A reading in Austin, Texas

I’ll be reading from my novel on Thursday, September 26, at 7pm on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. The reading will be free and open to the public, and it will take place in the Joynes Reading Room, which is on the east side of the Carothers Residence Hall, 2501 Whitis Avenue. (The Facebook event page is here.)

Please note that copies of my novel will NOT be available for sale at this reading, because of university regulations, but feel free to bring one if you’d like it signed. You might be able to pick up a copy at the Austin bookstore Book People on the way into town (apparently they have five copies in stock as of Monday morning).

Týn church

A postcard from the 1930s of Týn church. “V.K.K.V. 125.”

If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, it might follow page 172. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)

Readings this weekend in DC and Brooklyn

I’m reading from my novel twice this weekend—on Saturday in Washington, DC, and on Sunday in Brooklyn.

On Saturday, September 21, at 3:30pm, I’ll be reading at the Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, with Anne Sward.

Thanks to the transporting power of a locomotive, I’ll be reading in Brooklyn, NY, the very next day, Sunday, September 22, at 11am, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival. I’m on a panel of debut novelists, which will meet in Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street.

Please come!

Malá strana

A photograph from 1990 or 1991 of Malá strana, Prague. [Originally mislabeled by me as “Nové město,” and corrected thanks to the comment below.]

If this image were included in an extra-illustrated binding of the novel Necessary Errors, the binder would be at liberty to position it pretty much anywhere. (For an explanation of extra-illustration, click here.)

A review in the Toronto Star

In the Toronto Star, Emily Donaldson compares the advent of my novel to “Venus rising from the foamy sea.”