About Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What it Means to Be Haunted Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (August 7, 2012) At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story […]
Emma Sweeney, author of As Always, Jack, on tour July 2012
About As Always, Jack • Publisher: Axios Press In the days just after the end of World War Two, a young Texas Navy pilot named Jack Sweeney falls crazy in love with a California girl just before he is shipped off to the Pacific with his squadron. He woos her with letters and makes away with […]
Christian Hosoi, author of Hosoi, on tour June/July 2012
About Hosoi • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: HarperOne (June 12, 2012) Raised at the legendary Marina Del Rey Skatepark—where his father was the manager and the Dogtown and Z-Boys crew were his mentors—Christian Hosoi never questioned that he would become a full-time skateboarder. But no one could have predicted his meteoric rise to the apex of a burgeoning […]
J.J. Keeler, author of I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands, on tour July 2012
About I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands • Paperback: 170 pages • Publisher: Paragon House (March 1, 2012) I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD focuses on harming obsessions (fear of hurting oneself or others), rather than the traditional hand-washing compulsion normally associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and provides a candid look at the daily challenges faced […]
Ken Budd, author of The Voluntourist, on tour May 2012
About The Voluntourist • Paperback: 464 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (May 8, 2012) VOL·UN·TOUR·IST n. 1. A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself. 2. Someone who can only do it two weeks at a time. When Ken Budd was thirty-nine, his father collapsed after eighteen holes […]
Pamela Haag, author of Marriage Confidential, on tour June 2012
About Marriage Confidential • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 5, 2012) With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a “post-romantic” mood and a fair number of marriages end up “semi-happy.” It’s a world where the husbands of “workhorse wives” pursue the Having […]
Priscilla Gilman, author of The Anti-Romantic Child, on tour April/May 2012
About The Anti-Romantic Child • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 24, 2012) Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth’s vision of childhood’s spontaneous wonder, eagerly anticipated the birth of her first child, certain that he would come “trailing clouds of glory.” But as Benjamin grew, his remarkable precocity was […]
Loung Ung, author of Lulu in the Sky, on tour April/May 2012
To celebrate this release, the first two memoirs in Loung Ung’s trilogy, the bestseller First They Killed My Father and the continuing story in Lucky Child, will also be on tour. About Lulu in the Sky • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 17, 2012) Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling […]
Linda Campanella, author of When All That’s Left of Me is Love, on tour April 2012
About When All That’s Left of Me is Love • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Tate Publishing (August 2, 2011) In her poignant memoir, Linda Campanella offers readers an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives and reconstructs her last year with her terminally ill mother and, in the process, comes […]
Christopher Benfey, author of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, on tour March/April 2012
About Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 15, 2012) An incandescent journey to unearth the beginnings of American art. An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the story of America’s artistic birth. […]