(Video)
"The
Art of Friction."
Nnineteen creative works by contemporary,
award-winning writers including Junot Díaz, Jonathan Safran Foer,
Thomas Beller, Bernard Cooper, and Terry Tempest Williams, who also provide
companion pieces in which they comment on their work.
The
Open City Benefit.
The New York Times City Section closes:
back-story and remarks.
"Discovering the Baltic Islands,"
in Travel and Leisure.
"Home,
Sweet, Elusive Home,"
The New York Times.
"Lost In New Orleans,"
Oxford American.
A few words from "George Being George,"
the oral biography of George Plimpton, read on NPR's
All Things Considered. An earlier two cents on the same topic.
Open
City #26
"The
Deciders: Ted Solotaroff, Rust Hills, and the mysterious motives of fiction
editors," Slate.com
A new introduction to D.H. Lawrence's
"Women
in Love"
ESPN'S True Hoop, Henry Abbot's thoughtful
basketball blog, has reprinted, with nice commentary, two basketball related
essays from "How To Be a Man," "The
Tryout," and "Scenes
From a Playground."
A contribution to "Dirty
Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex"
The
Open City Benefit
NYU
Summer Writer's Conference,
"Driving
Southwest Virginia's Mountains,"
Travel and Leisure Magazine, September 2008.
"Route
60: A Tour of New Mexico and Arizona,"
Travel and Leisure Magazine, April 2008.
"Shock
and Awww," a review of Rudolf' Delson's
"Maynard and Jennica," in the New York Times.
"Summer
in the City," A column for The New York Times : "Negotiations",
"Pursuits"
and, "The
Stuff of Life"
-"Swiss
Tryst: One couple takes to Switzerland's magic mountains with Thomas
Mann's novel in hand," in Travel and Leisure Magazine, July 2007.
-"The
Peculiar Pleasure of Earplugs," in Slate.com
-"Lost,
In Translation," in The New York Times.
-Esquire's Napkins
-Spring Readings 2007:
The
University of Arizona Prose Series is pleased to announce a reading
with Thomas Beller, Thursday, March 29th, 2007.
The
University of Virginia, Thursday, April 19th, 2007.
-"The End of Innocence: Jackie Earle
Haley Steps Out Of The Shadows," in Film
Comment.
An examination of the actor's unlikely trajectory
which began with two seminal coimg of age movies, The Bad News Bears (all
three!) and Breaking Away,
(written by Open City author Steve
Tesich) and resumes, after a hiatus of over two decades, with his Oscar
nominated performance in Little Children.
- 2007
brings two new essays in two new anthologies:
"Odd
Numbers," in
"Only Child,"
an anthology with excellent contributions from
Kathryn Harrison and John Hodgeman, among many others.
-"The Kinks at the Garden, 1981,"
in
"The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable
Concertgoing Experience."
-"That
Night at the Garden," an
essay about a Kinks concert in 1981, shoplifting, police violence, and
some other things, in The New York Times City Section, front page, November
26th, 2006. Adopted from a longer essay (see above.)
-The
Debris of the Visible, a review of "In The Shadow of Angkor:
Contemporary Writing from Cambodia," in the Cambodia Daily.
-"Birth of a Salesman," an essay
about Egg-Creams, street vending, and high school set in 1982, in Gourmet
magazine's August summer reading supplement. The author read an excerpt
on Public Radio International's "The Splendid Table," here.
(You need Real Player). For the extremely curious, a podcast interview
about the writing of the essay set at Gem
Spa, while sipping a vanilla Egg-Cream, on Gourmet's website, here.
-Robert Birnbaum interviews Thomas Beller
here.
-A review of Edmund White's "My Lives,"
in the Voice, here.
-"Foreign Exchange," a review
of two new story collections in the New York Times, here.
-On May 22nd, 2006, PEN
America presented the PEN/Robert
Bingham Award for best first book of fiction in 2005 to "We're
in Trouble," by Chrisopher
Coake. The judges this year are Victoria Redel, Heidi Julavits, and
Thomas Beller.
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Beowulf Sheehan
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