On Work

Lots of sparkling news from my publicity clients today... Terese Svoboda has a moving essay on family jewels, lore and inheritances at MORE, she's also touring (Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago) for Weapons Grade and Trailer Girl and will be discussing "The Long Life of the Short Story" with Ben Greenman (Correspondences) next month at the Center for Fiction... Meg Cabot captures that rare quality of inspirational heartbreak in a short story about teeth, vacations, boyfriends and best friends lost (and what could be gained) at Significant Objects... Jean Thompson is interviewed about Do Not Deny Me by The Los Angeles Times... Tayari Jones, whose award-winning novel, The Untelling, I publicized, goes with Algonquin for her next one, The Silver Girl, announced today... and Marcy Dermansky, whose debut novel, Twins, I publicized, is soon to publish Bad Marie with HarperPerennial... Roxana Robinson (Cost) is reading tonight at Le Poisson Rouge to launch PEN America's new "Make Believe" issue... For fans of apocalyptic fiction, Two Dollar Radio has reissued Rudolph Wurlitzer's Flats and Quake in one eye-popping edition... Tuesday in New York, the final edition of "Upstairs at the Square" for the year, featuring Sherman Alexie and singer-songwriter Kelley McRae with host Katherine Lanpher.