11/23/08: WORDS & MUSIC (New Orleans, LA)

Posted on October 16, 2008 by SJW

Sunday, November 23 – 12:30 p.m. Hotel Monteleone, Riverview Room (Roof)

THE AMERICAN DREAM: Making it Big with a Debut Novel! Featuring Andrew Davidson, author of the new highly touted The Gargoyle; Julia Glass, author of I See You Everywhere, and Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for The Missing. Stewart O’Nan won the Faulkner Society’s first gold medal for best novel in 1993 with his brilliantly poignant manuscript Snow Angels. The gold medal for his unpublished manuscript landed him a two-book contract with Doubleday, and O’Nan has published more than a dozen books since. Snow Angels remains in print, and was adapted for a film by David Gordan Green and released recently. In the film, Sam Rockwell gives a devastatingly anguished performance, the kind that makes the viewer squirm with the pain of it all. So, what do these writers think about the future of the novel? Can this American Dream still come true? A cash bar will be open and authors will sign following the session.

11/10/08: Evenings with Authors (Ohio)

Posted on October 15, 2008 by SJW

Mon., Nov. 10; Columbus School for Girls, 56 S. Columbia Ave.

“Anyone who thinks American fiction is dead hasn’t read the work of Stewart O’Nan.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

Stewart O’Nan will read from two novels: his 2007 New York Times “Editor’s Pick”, Last Night at the Lobster, and his brand new work Songs of the Missing, an enthralling account of a family in the aftermath of their daughter’s disappearance. O’Nan’s acclaimed talent for depicting his ordinary heroes with empathy and grace is evident on every page of these two books. O’Nan is the author of several works, one of which, Snow Angel, was made into a film. He has won several literary awards, including The Washington Post’s “Book of the Year” for Last Night at the Lobster. He lives in Connecticut.

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Books4Barack.com

Posted on September 25, 2008 by SJW

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.

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Snow Angels DVD Reviews

Posted on September 18, 2008 by SJW

Beckinsale enjoys the complexity, intimacy of smaller film

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.

Author O’Nan Coming to Farmington

Posted on September 7, 2008 by SJW

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.