Songs for the Missing has been nominated for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Nominated by Stadtbibliothek Bremen in Germany, the librarian writes:
This is an elegantly crafted, memorable book that resonates with sadness. O’Nan reminds of the eternal varieties such as love, compassion and honour.
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Stewart O’Nan took the podium Wednesday night in Konover auditorium to discuss his string of hugely successful novels and his well-noted writing career.
“I was never trained as I writer, I just used to write in my basement when I came home from work,” O’Nan said in an interview before his talk.
Novelist Stewart O’Nan, whose latest is “Songs For the Missing,” will read Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Research Center, 405 Babbidge Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Information: creativewriting.uconn.edu or 860-486-2324.
There are many other authors at the event who will enchant children and adults. Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen will read, the Cake Doctor will talk about cooking, novelist Stewart O’Nan will talk about fiction. Even these three don’t do justice to the range of authors at the event. For the full schedule at http://www.bigread.net/schedule.htm.
Great Ficton Panel
3-4pm
with Curtis Sittenfeld
Before he became her writing student at Cornell University, author Stewart O’Nan met Lorrie Moore on the printed page in the early 1980s.
Mr. O’Nan, who lives in Edgewood, was startled by Ms. Moore’s first short story collection, “Self Help.”
“Those stories were written in the second person, which is very rare,” he said, adding that her work also made him think about what a story is and what it does.
Mr. O’Nan will introduce his former teacher when she appears tonight at 7:30 in Carnegie Music Hall as part of the Drue Heinz Lectures. He discussed her work because she had strep throat last week and couldn’t do a telephone interview.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 