City of Secrets Book Tour

Posted on April 12, 2016 by SJW

Tue, Apr 26, 7pm
BARNES AND NOBLE # 2076
100 West Bridge Street
Homestead, PA 15120

Wed, Apr 27, 7:30pm
TEMPLE SINAI
2808 SUMMIT ST
OAKLAND, CA 94609

Thu, Apr 28, 7pm

VROMAN’S
695 E Colorado Blvd
PASADENA, CA 91101

Fri, Apr 29, 7:30pm
POWELL’S BOOKS
1005 W BURNSIDE ST
PORTLAND, OR 97209-3114

Sat, Apr 30, 7pm
ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO IRINA RUBINA
1521 10TH AVE
SEATTLE, WA 98122-3806

Mon, May 2, 8pm
BOOKS AND BOOKS
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134

Tue, May 3, 7pm
RAINY DAY BOOKS
2706 W 53RD ST
FAIRWAY, KS 66205-1705

Wed, May 4, 7pm
ANDERSONS BOOKSHOP- RDC
123 W JEFFERSON AVE
NAPERVILLE, IL 60540-5310

GoodReads Book Giveaway for City of Secrets

Posted on January 23, 2016 by SJW

The nice folks at Goodreads are giving away copies of Stewart’s newest book, City of Secrets. The giveaway ends on 2/18, so sign up and get your copy!

“Murakami’s Farewell to Despair,” by Lowry Pei

Posted on January 16, 2016 by SJW

Check out a recent essay on Haruki Murakami by Lowry Pei. From Stewart:

When I was looking at models for The Circus Fire, I studied Murakami’s nonfiction account of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, Underground.

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West of Sunset Paperback Tour

Posted on January 4, 2016 by SJW

West of Sunset Paperback Tour

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Wed 1/6
Pittsburgh/Homestead, PA
Barnes & Noble, The Waterfront, 7 pm

Fri 1/8
Chapel Hill, NC
Flyleaf Books, 7 pm

Sat 1/9
Southern Pines, NC
The Country Bookshop, 2 pm

Mon 1/11
Atlanta, GA
A Capella Books, 7 pm

Tues 1/12
Memphis, TN
The Booksellers at Laurelwood (held at Crosstown Arts Story Booth), 6:30 pm

Wed 1/13
Fairhope, AL
Read It & Eat/Page & Palette, 1 pm

Thurs 1/14
Vero Beach, FL
The Vero Beach Book Center, 6 pm

Sat 1/16 – Sat 1/23
St. Petersburg, FL
Writers in Paradise Conference, Eckerd College
– Fri 1/22 reading at 8 pm with Andre Dubus III

Mon 1/25
Sewickley, PA
Penguin Bookshop, 6:30 pm

Tues 1/26
Wichita, KS
Watermark Books & Café, 6 pm

Wed 1/27
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis County Library, 7 pm

Thurs 1/28
Denver, CO
The Tattered Cover (Colfax), 7 pm

Pittsburgh City Paper: Five notable locally sourced books from 2015

Posted on December 30, 2015 by SJW

Five notable 2015 books by Pittsburgh-based writers

West of Sunset (Viking Penguin), by Stewart O’Nan. The veteran novelist (Last Night at the Lobster) drew raves coast to coast for this novel about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, scuffling years, with its wonderfully imagined recreation of late-1930s Hollywood. West of Sunset offers an indelible portrait of a man, a time and a place: clear-eyed but still alive to the possibilities of romance and dreaming.

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