Just a week to go until “A Face in the Crowd” is published (8/21/2012). Listen to an audio excerpt and pre-order the eBook now!
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The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond, in an ebook original to be published on August 21, 2012.
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….
S+S Audio will publish a simultaneous audio edition, read by Craig Wasson.
 23 June 2012/PNC Park/vs. Detroit/from Andrew McCutchen |
 22 July 2012/Fenway Park/vs. Toronto/from Jarrod Saltalamacchia |
Next time you happen to be in Ithaca, you may want to stop by Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, because they now host The Stewart O’Nan Papers, 1987-2009. The abstract:
Records documenting the work of writer Stewart O’Nan including manuscripts, books, research files and correspondence with publishers and other writers. The collection includes his research, drafts, and correspondence during the writing process for his varied books as well as additional correspondence and material. Papers from the following books are included, Gardner Book, Snow Angels, The Names of the Dead, Dear Stephen King, The Speed Queen, The War Back Home / A World Away, A Good Day to Die / Cuba Libre, The Vietnam Reader, A Prayer for the Dying, The Circus Fire, Everyday People, Summer People, Wish You Were Here, The Night Country, Upstate / The Good Wife, Faithful, Last Night at the Lobster, Songs for the Missing, and Clara (Screenplay).
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – Main (Oakland)
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Good friends and novelists Stewart O’Nan and Jane McCafferty appear together for Writers LIVE with their latest novels.
Stewart O’Nan, a Pittsburgher and self-proclaimed Pirates fan, is a nationally acclaimed author who has built a following all over the country for novels like Emily Alone and Last Night at the Lobster. Kirkus Reviews calls his latest novella The Odds “a valentine to marriage as it is actually lived in troubled times.” The Odds follows the Fowlers to Niagara Falls on their second honeymoon where they bet their remaining life savings in hopes of saving everything else – even their crumbling marriage. Stewart O’Nan is author of 14 novels, a screenplay, and two works of nonfiction. He says he got his first big break as a writer when he won the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for his collection of short stories, In the Walled City.
Jane McCafferty is author of the new novel First You Try Everything, and a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. Set in present-day Pittsburgh, her latest novel is about the unraveling of the marriage of Ben and Evvie Muldoone and the agonizing process of divorce. The Oprah Magazine blog, O, says that First You Try Everything is “a life-stopping novel by Jane McCafferty, a crackerjack of a writer…”. Jane McCafferty won the 1992 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for her collection of short fiction, Director of the World.
A book signing follows the program, with copies of First You Try Everything and The Odds available from the Penguin Bookshop.
For more information, contact Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures at 412-622-8866, email info@pittsburghlectures.org, or visit www.pittsburghlectures.org.
Related story at the Post-Gazette:
In the category of calculated risks, marriage is undoubtedly the ultimate gamble.
Art and Marion Fowler, a Cleveland couple verging on bankruptcy, roll their wedded dice one last time by returning to Niagara Falls, where they honeymooned 30 years ago. Their story unfolds in Stewart O’Nan’s 14th novel, “The Odds.”
Mr. O’Nan, who lives in Edgewood, will read from “The Odds” on Wednesday at the main Carnegie Library branch in Oakland. Joining him for the reading and a conversation will be his colleague, Carnegie Mellon University English professor Jane McCafferty. She will read from her novel “First You Try Everything,” which was published this year by HarperCollins. [See review of both books from the Jan. 29 Post-Gazette.]
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