Don't fall in love with yourself. It is a rare author who can read from their book for more than 8-10 minutes without engendering a tune-out from the audience.
Written by Steve Almond for The Good Men Project I’m in the library of a small college in Salt Lake City when my cell phone rings. It’s my wife...
I'm standing awkwardly on the dais steps between a seated Steve Almond and a line of fans waiting to buy signed copies of his three self-published boo...
By now you are elated by (or resigned to) the prospect of sharing a room with a writer you hardly know. Here's a list of 11 sundry things you might want to consider before over-packing.
The best books, essays and poems make you laugh, "Oh God, me too," about things we can barely admit to ourselves. Works that when we read them, remind us that we are not alone, even in our crazy-times.
A list of fiction writers that was, perhaps, missed by those on this side of the pond was the one in the UK Telegraph, which contains a determinedly multi-cultural list of 20 under 40, among whom my personal favorite is Rana Dasgupta.
