"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."
---Kirkus
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.
I’m giving readings that are coming up that I’m very excited about, since they’re in my old neck of the woods:
Erie, PA
Saturday, Dec. 30, 2 PM
Erie Bookstore
Cleveland Heights, OH
Thursday, January 04, 2007 at 07:00 PM
with Sean Thomas Dougherty and Chris Barzak
Mac’s Backs
Please drop by if you’re in the area!
Tue, December 19 2006 » Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
I love Mac’s! I gave a reading there back when I had some small indie chapbook printed in B+W called Beware the Glass Rabbit. Fun place. Good crowd. One of the places in Cleveland I still miss. Can’t make it to that reading though…but-
Since I live in Erie, I should be able to make it to the Erie Books reading.
I was in the area! And I’d have made you stay at my house. But I’m not anymore and it isn’t my house anyway. But I wish I could be there. (Except for the fact I’m really happy to be away from Cleveland in the winter.)
Paul-yes, do drop by!
Maureen-yeah, the timing is off juuust a little bit with your move. But hopefully one day we can visit you in Austin! It was so good to see you and Bob down there. One of the absolute highlights of the trip.