From The Toronto Star:
“If you look at the early stories of Yates and the early stories of Carver, the diction is very much the same,” says novelist Stewart O’Nan, who championed Yates’s writing in an influential 1999 Boston Review essay “The Lost World of Richard Yates: How the Great Writer of the Age of Anxiety Disappeared from Print.” [Read more]
From KQED Writers’ Block:
Stewart O’Nan reads a passage from Songs for the Missing, the story of a young girl’s disappearance and its effect on those left behind.
[Direct link to reading (mp3 format)]
From The Lyme Times (Lyme, CT):
His new novel, Songs for the Missing, is a disturbing yet empathetically written and enlightening behind-the-scenes portrait of a couple coping with the sudden disappearance of their college-bound daughter and what happens long after the TV crews are gone.
In a recent interview, O’Nan told the Times that he based the book on the disappearance of 19-year-old Katie Poirier, who a decade ago was abducted from a convenience store in Minnesota.
From North Country Public Radio:
This recent novel from Stewart O’Nan, who has been called the “bard of the working class,” takes us into the lives of people who work at a restaurant that is going out of business. Hosts Ellen Rocco and Chris Robinson, along with the Massena Book Club, talk to the author in this special on-the-road season, live from Massena Public Library.
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.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 