Congratulations, Deb Olin Unferth!
Last fall, Deb Olin Unferth was a featured guest at the reading series I curate for the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, sharing an excerpt from Vacation. Late last week, I learned that Deb had been named the winner of this year’s Cabell First Novelist Award, a $5,000 prize presented by the English department at Virginia Commonwealth University. It’s great news, and well-deserved recognition; if you haven’t read Vacation yet, track it down!
(Note: I am a former Cabell judge.)
16 August 2009 | events |
Rob Holub: “The Song Is You”
Here’s a video of Rob Holub singing “The Song Is You” at Tuesday night’s Megan Abbott/Arthur Phillips reading, which raised nearly $400 in donations for Union Settlement.
In addition to readings from Megan and Arthur, the event also featured a short talk by jazz historian Will Friedwald, who explained the significance of “The Song Is You” in 20th-century American music, like why it was embraced by bebop pioneers and Frank Sinatra a decade after it was first introduced to the public. Rob also sang one of his original compositions; New Yorkers will be able to see him at the Rockwood Music Hall on August 22.
31 July 2009 | events |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
