About What We Have: A Family’s Inspiring Story About Love, Loss, and Survival Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 5, 2010) At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake […]
Mary Karr, author of Lit, on tour July 2010
About Lit Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year is out now in paperback—Mary Karr’s sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry is “as humble and funny as it is beautiful” (Time). Lit is about getting drunk and getting […]
Marjorie Hart, author of Summer at Tiffany, on tour June 2010
About Summer at Tiffany Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Avon A (March 30, 2010) New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as […]
Carlene Bauer, author of Not That Kind of Girl, on tour July 2010
About Not That Kind of Girl Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) Raised in evangelical churches that preached apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, and she becomes skeptical […]
Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, on tour June 2010
About In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to family and friends, gave generously to his church, and invested in his community—but his bank account couldn’t keep up. Soon White began moving money from one […]
Michael Perry, author of Coop, on tour May 2010
About Coop Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with thirty-seven acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs […]
Jessica Stern, author of Denial: A Memoir of Terror, on tour June/July 2010
About Denial: A Memoir of Terror Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Ecco (June 22, 2010) “DENIAL is one of the most important books I have read in a decade…[a] cogent meditation on the links between sexual sadism, humiliation and political terrorism. This is a groundbreaking book, in terms of how it shows that personal experience–especially the […]
Wendy Burden, author of Dead End Gene Pool, on tour April/May 2010
About Dead End Gene Pool In the tradition of Sean Wilsey’s Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough’s Running With Scissors, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir. For generations the Burdens were one […]
Paula Butturini, author of Keeping the Feast, on tour January/February 2010
About Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Publication Date: 2/18/2010 Pages: 272 Keeping the Feast is a story of love, trauma, and the personal and marital healing that can come from a beautiful place and its simple traditions. It’s a memoir about what happens when […]
Mark Millhone, author of The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances, on tour July/August 2009
About Mark Mark Millhone is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, columnist and teacher. After graduating from Columbia University with an MFA in Film Direction and winning the Academy Award for Best Student Film, Mark spent more than five years wandering the vast desert of Hollywood development hell before resurfacing as a screenwriting professor at NYU Film […]