Photo from the ABA Winter Institute

Posted on February 11, 2015 by SJW

A nice shot from the ABA Winter Institute breakfast panel:

Erik Larson, Maureen Corrigan, Stewart O’Nan, and Oren Teicher at ABA Winter Institute breakfast panel

Stewart on Rick Kleffel’s The Agony Column; Asheville and Savannah This Week

Posted on February 9, 2015 by SJW

Read the review and listen to the podcasts of West of Sunset on Rick Kleffel’s The Agony Column!

Stewart is on the last leg of his tour — Asheville and Savannah this week:

Asheville, NC
ABA Winter Institute
The Man in Room 441: A Conversation About F. Scott Fitzgerald, With Maureen Corrigan, Stewart O’Nan, and Erik Larson
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 – 10:20am to 11:45am

Asheville has a rich literary history. Included among the authors with ties to the city is one of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald. (His wife, Zelda was treated at Asheville’s Highland Hospital, a psychiatric facility.) Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Little, Brown) and Stewart O’Nan, author of West of Sunset (Viking, published January 2015), a novel of Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood, will share their insights and observations about the writer, his works, and his times. The conversation will be moderated by bestselling author Erik Larson, author of Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Crown, to be published in March 2015).

Room:

Heritage BR – A, B

Savannah, GA
Savannah Book Festival, 2/14/2015 4:10-5:10PM
http://www.savannahbookfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/final-schedule-2015.pdf

Review of West of Sunset from The Washington Times

Posted on February 7, 2015 by SJW

Imagining F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood life

By Corinna Lothar

The Gilded Age. “The Great Gatsby” exemplified the privileged life style of the 1920s Jazz Age. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were the toast of the literary world as well as of the demi-monde. “Nothing was impossible — everything was just beginning” wrote Fitzgerald, as quoted by Stewart O’Nan in his engrossing new novel, “West of Sunset,” about the last years of Fitzgerald’s life, years that proved that indeed, “[t]here are no second acts in American lives.”

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Stewart will be in his hometown of Pittsburgh tonight!

East End Book Exchange
4754 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224