Have you met The Nervous Breakdown yet? Founded by author Brad Listi, this new website is intended as a new space for authors to promote their work. The fiction section’s aim, as explained in an open letter, is
not only akin to that of all good literary magazines–to showcase some of the most vibrant [...]

Boston-area FWR readers, check out the Boston Book Festival THIS Saturday, October 24, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at Copley Square. The festival features readings, lectures, and discussions such as:

Keynote speaker Orhan Pamuk
“Ties That Bind”: novelists Richard Russo, Michael Thomas, and Elinor Lipman on the family in fiction
John Hodgman interviewed by Tom Perrotta
“Book Worms [...]

NYC-based writers: On Tuesday, September 22 at 7 PM, head to the Rattlestick Theater to see a one-night only reading of Mulletfingers: Short Plays on Hands and Fingers by FWR contributor Brian Bartels. I was lucky enough to attend another night of Brian’s hilarious yet thought-provoking plays, Versus, in March, and the short pieces [...]

NPR’s “Voice of Books” has a new book of his own, a collection of travel essays called A Trance After Breakfast. New Yorkers, come hear him read from it on Monday, June 22, at 7 PM at McNally Jackson (52 Prince St.)–and check out FWR’s interview with the author following the publication of his most [...]

n a single day — June 16, 1904 — Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus walked the streets of Dublin and the pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Today in cities across the globe, fans of the novel are celebrating with races, walking tours, pub crawls, readings, and performances.
If you’re in Dublin itself, events began on [...]

Join me this Saturday, June 13, at 3 PM on Central Park’s Great Lawn. I’ll be taking advantage of free cupcakes and the chance (also free) to hear Bridget McNulty read from her debut novel, Strange Nervous Laughter. (Check out Bridget’s blog tour post here on FWR.)