Laird Hunt's Latest News Updates 2010-09-05T10:50:18Z Copyright (c) 2010, Laird ExpressionEngine tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:09:05 Dark Charlie in The Brooklyn Rail tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.90 2010-09-05T09:48:17Z 2010-09-05T10:50:18Z Laird lhunt@du.edu The three sections of my Dark Charlie story are in the September Brooklyn Rail.

]]> Zing Interview tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.89 2010-08-25T07:29:52Z 2010-08-25T08:29:53Z Laird lhunt@du.edu An interview I did with Brandon Johnson for Zing Magazine.

]]> Pen USA Finalist tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.88 2010-08-25T07:27:19Z 2010-08-25T08:28:20Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Ray of the Star has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pen USA Literary Award for Fiction.

]]> November Exquisite tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.87 2010-07-27T20:20:49Z 2010-07-27T21:21:50Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Actes Sud, my French publisher, has set November as the release date for their version of The Exquisite (trans. Barbara Schmidt).

]]> Audio Impossibly tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.86 2010-07-27T20:16:05Z 2010-07-27T21:20:07Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Listening to samples for the audio version of The Impossibly.  Details to follow on release date, etc.

]]> Stay Tuned tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.85 2010-07-02T21:06:47Z 2010-07-02T22:09:48Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Stay-tuned for info about the release of one of my novels as an audiobook. 

Also, reading galleys of my translation of Oliver Rohe’s Vacant Lot (Counterpath, this fall).

]]> Some Things tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.84 2010-05-26T18:01:35Z 2010-05-26T19:02:36Z Laird lhunt@du.edu A number of things coming in the next several months: Marick Press will reissue my first book, The Paris Stories; Counterpath Press will publish my translation of Oliver Rohe’s short novel, Vacant Lot; and Coffee House will be releasing my novels (The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite and Ray of the Star) electronically.  Also, in 2011, Coffee House will release a 10th anniversary paperback edition of The Impossibly.  More on all of this and other things as the months unfurl. 

]]> Where I’ll be at AWP tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.83 2010-04-06T15:42:57Z 2010-04-06T16:45:58Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Wednesday (April 7)

7:00PM-9:00PM COUNTERPATH BOOKS / DRUNKEN BOAT / GUERNICA / PERSEA BOOKS / POOL PERFORMANCE
Location: Dikeou Collection, 1615 California St., Suite 515, Denver, CO 80202; 303.623.3001

Website: http://www.dikeoucollection.com

Join five of the most innovative journals and literary publishers showcasing their contributors in multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and video installation. Performers include Laird Hunt, Steve Katz, Alexander Chee, Susan Taylor Chehak, Elizabeth Kadetsky, Irina Reyn, Robin Beth Schaer, Dean Rader, Karen Holman, Elizabeth Bradfield and Dylan Landis. Free and open to the public, and only minutes from the conference hotel.

Friday (April 8)

3 pm
Room 201
Colorado Convention Center, Street Level
University of Denver Faculty Fiction Reading. (Brian Kiteley, Laird Hunt, Selah Saterstrom) This will be a reading by four fiction writers—one former and three current University of Denver professors. The reading will showcase the qualities DU’s creative writing program hopes to promote: a love of language and an interest in blurring the boundaries between genres

Astrophil Press AWP Reading and After Party

Tarpaulin Sky Press peeps Traci O Connor, Sandy Florian, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, and Selah Saterstrom join superstars Keith Abbott, David Gruber, and Brett Eugene Ralph

Sponsored by TSky Editor Duncan B. Barlow’s Astrophil Press, and TSky authors Johannes Göransson’s and Joyelle McSweeney’s Action Books

7:00 PM@Hi-Dive
7 South Broadway
Free
Music: To Be Announced

]]> Thoughts of Sorts tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.82 2010-03-20T22:21:50Z 2010-03-20T23:22:52Z Laird lhunt@du.edu My review of Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec is in the new Rain Taxi.

]]> Astrophil Interview tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.81 2010-03-04T01:55:06Z 2010-03-04T02:57:09Z Laird lhunt@du.edu An interview I did with Duncan Barlow at Astrophil…

]]> Books and Bars Skype Interview tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.80 2010-02-28T01:53:21Z 2010-02-28T02:54:23Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Some shots from my long distance exchange with the smart crowd at Books and Bars in Minneapolis….

]]> Flatman Crooked tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.79 2010-01-29T21:48:41Z 2010-01-29T22:49:43Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Flatman Crooked has posted a nice pickup of Matt Tiffany’s review of Ray.

]]> Perec Essay tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.78 2010-01-29T21:45:42Z 2010-01-29T22:46:43Z Laird lhunt@du.edu An essay I wrote on Perec some years ago has been published, in four parts, at Words without Borders.  The first part is here.

]]> Denver Reading tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.77 2010-01-13T23:09:51Z 2010-01-14T00:09:53Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Thursday, January 14th,

Ellen Orleans, Laird Hunt and Matthew Cooperman
7 p.m.
Denver’s Gypsy House Café (1279 Marion St. (13th & Marion))

]]> Hobart Interview tag:lairdhunt.net,2010:elsewhere/7.76 2010-01-06T03:33:10Z 2010-01-06T04:35:11Z Laird lhunt@du.edu Jim Ruland and I had this conversation in late August in LA.  Hobart has been gracious enough to reprint it.  With thanks to Jim!

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