I’ve been back for a few days now, but it seems all I’ve been doing is trying to catch up on all the work I had set aside before leaving, hence the lack of posting. The interview I did for KQED is now archived online. Recent reviews of Secret Son include pieces by Lara Killian in Popmatters and James Gibbons in Bookforum. An excerpt of my novel also appears in the Spring issue of the London-based Banipal magazine.
I had another great reading for Secret Son earlier tonight. Great audience, great questions. One elderly Moroccan woman, who had come out with her entire family, said that she had wanted to let out joy-cries when I started to speak. But her family told her that it wasn’t such a great idea, and that perhaps the bookstore customers might get alarmed. (!) It was also great to see some friends and readers I hadn’t seen since I toured for Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, four years ago.
In other news, the interview I did with Voice of America when I was in DC is now available online. And at NPR, Maud Newton recommends the late Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, a novel that is now part of the New York Review of Books Classics series, and for which I wrote an introduction.
My final stop on the Secret Son tour will be in the Bay Area today. Here are the details:
Monday, May 18, 2009
7:00 pm
Reading and signing
Barnes & Noble
6050 El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito, CA 94530
Please come by and say hello!
I want to say a big “Thank You” to all my friends who came out on Thursday night for the reading at Skylight. You know who you are.
I’ll be reading from my new novel, Secret Son, here, at home, in Los Angeles. Here are the details:
Thursday, May 14, 2009
7:30 PM
Reading and signing
Skylight Books
Los Angeles, California
Please come by and say hello!
I read from Secret Son at Books & Books in Coral Gables tonight. It was my first time at this bookstore and I really loved it. They have a wonderfully laid out space, with lots of room to walk around, and these really cool leather pouffes you can sit on if you want to get started reading, plus a little cafe, a lovely courtyard, and they even put up a sign before the reading begins! Thank you to everyone who came.