About The Exiles Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Little A / New Harvest (July 2, 2013) Nate, a mid-level investment banker on Wall Street, and his longtime girlfriend Emily can no longer afford their cramped apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Tired of trying to keep up with their jet-set friends, they jump at a job offer for […]
Amy Shearn, author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn, on tour April/May 2013
About The Mermaid of Brooklyn Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (April 2, 2013) SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID. Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped […]
Charlene Mires, author of Capital of the World, on tour in March, 2013
About Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: NYU Press (March 4, 2013) From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations […]
Joan Cusack Handler, author of Confessions of Joan the Tall, on tour in November/December 2012
About Confessions of Joan the Tall Paperback: 246 pages, appropriate for all ages Publisher: CavanKerry (November 13, 2012) A coming of age memoir written in the voice of a twelve year old Irish Catholic girl living in the Bronx in 1954, Confessions recounts one year in the life of Joan, a very tall, religious, funny, self-conscious, obsessive, […]
Andrew Goldstein, author of The Bookie’s Son, on tour September 2012
About The Bookie’s Son Paperback: 248 pages Publisher: (sixoneseven) books (May 1, 2012) In 1960, as a way to pay off some of his debt, the bookie, Harry Davis, starts collecting loan payments for the Bronx gangster, Nathan Glucksman. Making his rounds, Harry visits a sweet tailor named Morris, who is a survivor of the Holocaust. Whether […]
People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle on tour November, 2011
About People Tell Me Things: Stories by David Finkle Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Nthposition Press (October 4, 2011) Authors, publishers, reporters, musicians, actors, and artists make up the fabric of the “scene” that is New York City. David Finkle has been a part of this world for years as a critic and writer for newspapers and magazines—a […]
Josh Karlen, author of Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir, on tour November 2010
About Lost Lustre: A New York Memoir Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Tatra Press (October 16, 2010) Muggings on Avenue C, punk bands at CBGB, youthful romance in Greenwich Village, parties in a nascent SoHo, dropping out from the famous Music & Art High School. In this episodic, coming of age memoir, Josh Karlen chronicles growing […]
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 […]