Happy Halloween, from ScreenRant and The Week

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The Night Country is listed as one of ten best Halloween books, via ScreenRant and Reddit. In fine company with the likes of Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, and Bram Stoker!

Ghosts and Halloween are a winning combination, and Stewart O’Nan’s The Night Country found a clever new way to blend the two together. Reddit user bittybro gave a great rundown of their favorite Halloween book when writing, “The Night Country by Stuart O’Nan. Ghost story that takes place on Halloween. Told from the POV of the ghosts.”

https://screenrant.com/best-spooky-halloween-books-reddit/

And from The Week, the novelist Elizabeth McCracken lists A Prayer for the Dying as one of her “favorite novels of the past 25 years”:

A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O’Nan (1999)

This is one of my favorite novels of the past 25 years — about a small Wisconsin town hemmed in by a diphtheria epidemic on one side and wildfire on the other. When I have students who want to write a book in the second person, this is where I steer them: the finest example I know, a tour de force.

https://theweek.com/book-list/1017117/elizabeth-mccracken-6-favorite-books-that-tackle-tough-topics

9/25/2022 11:30am – OCEAN HOUSE: Thriller Panel with Luanne Rice, Casey Sherman, Aggie Blum Thompson, Stewart O’Nan, and John Searles

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Enjoy an afternoon with your favorite thriller writers! Join us as Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce hosts a conversation with featured authors John Searles, Luanne Rice, Casey Sherman, Aggie Blum Thompson & Stewart O’Nan, to discuss their books and the thriller writing process. A meet and greet book signing opportunity will follow the discussion. Boxed lunch and soft drinks are included. 

Luanne’s newest release, Belle Mer is only available in e-book or audiobook format and will not be sold at the event

Please note that tickets purchased for this event are non-refundable. Books will be available for purchase at the event!

$25/person (plus tax and service charge)

Purchase Tickets Here!

https://www.banksquarebooks.com/event/thriller-panel-luanne-rice-casey-sherman-aggie-blum-thompson-stewart-onan-john-searles

The Talks: “It’s not just dots on a page.”

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Here’s something neat for Throwback Thursday, an interview Stewart did for The Talks back around when the German edition of The Odds was published. You can listen to snippets of the conversation, too. The lineup of interviews is stellar — in film, the likes of Alicia Vikander, Anthony Hopkins, and Antonio Banderas, and those are just the A’s! LeBron James, Mick Jagger, there’s no shortage of star power on this site.

In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly

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Check out the in-depth article on Ocean State in Bostonia, Boston University’s Alumni Magazine!

“When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl.” 

So begins Stewart O’Nan’s latest novel, Ocean State, a taut, deeply empathic exploration of a teenage love triangle with devastating consequences. 

“In writing the book, I wanted to be able to convey the feeling of what it feels like to be headlong, wildly, in love and how wretched and destroyed you can feel from love,” says O’Nan (ENG’83). “It’s a love story, not a murder story or a thriller.” 

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https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/stewart-onan-new-book-ocean-state/