If you’ve tried to buy a signed copy of my book over the last few weeks and failed, my apologies. Powell’s had sold out of them. I recently went into the store and signed some more copies of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. They’re now available here.
The Spanish-language edition of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits was released earlier this week in Spain by Ediciones Maeva, under the title Esperanza y Otros Sueños.
In other news, the Brazilian Portuguese language rights were sold just before the London Book Fair to Editora Rocco. More news as it happens.
I spend most of my days alone in my office, so it’s quite nice to venture out of the house and attend a cocktail party, particularly when that party happens to be the Oregon Literary Arts reception. The event was thrown to honor this year’s recipients of OLA fellowships in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. You can see a list of all the authors here.
An essay of mine appears in The May Queen, an anthology by thirty-something women reflecting on life, work, and “pulling it together.” The essays are written by a diverse group of women, including Samina Ali, Jennifer Weiner, Meghan Daum, Tanya Donelly, Heather Jurgensen and Erin Ergenbright.
The May Queen was recently reviewed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Check it out.
My short story “A Nice Young Man” has been translated into Italian by Chiara Manfrinato for the magazine El Ghibli. The story originally appeared in Pindeldyboz in 2003. Spero che lei piace la lettura!
I’ve mentioned before that Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits was selected by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for their freshman reading program. The website for the selection is now live, with information and reading questions for students. It’s both humbling and exciting to know that so many kids will be reading this book.