Songs for the Missing begins in the familiar territory of a mystery novel, but the latest Stewart O’Nan narrative veers in another direction: Rather than solve the mystery, O’Nan studies what happens to the friends and relatives left behind.
The 47-year-old author — who will read from the new novel and Last Night at the Lobster (2007) tonight during an “Evenings With Authors” event — spoke recently from his home in Connecticut.
Ayelet Waldman, the California novelist whose books include “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits” and the Mommy Track mystery series, is an ardent Obama supporter and is encouraging lovers of literature to contribute to his campaign in exchange for a “mystery bag” of books.
Kate Beckinsale has starred in big-budget Hollywood movies, including Pearl Harbor and The Aviator, and fought monsters in such films as Underworld and Van Helsing. After all that, Snow Angels, out this week on DVD, was a nice departure, she said, allowing her to play an ordinary person in a small-budget drama.
Novelist Stewart O’Nan’s “Songs for the Missing” is due in bookstores in less than two months, but it’s a 1998 work that is the focus of attention Monday in Farmington.
O’Nan plans to attend a Farmington Library event with a unique crowd – some adults in a book group who chose to read his “A World Away” together, and some students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford who, as part of a yearlong symposium, are reading everything O’Nan has written.
read more (New Britain Herald)
CLARKSON CONVOCATION: Writer speaks to freshmen who read novel for orientation
POTSDAM — Author Stewart O’Nan didn’t realize when he agreed to be Clarkson University’s convocation speaker that the college’s motto would turn out to describe perfectly the main character in his latest novel.
“‘A Workman That Needeth Not to be Ashamed.’ That’s Manny,” he said.
A former engineer, Mr. O’Nan has earned acclaim for turning his lucid eye on America’s overlooked edges.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 