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February, 2025
Reviews Ken Kalfus
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A Hole in the Story Preorder
A Hole in the Story is now available for preorder. You can get it directly from the publisher, Milkweed Editions or any online bookseller, or ask for it at your favorite bricks-and-mortar establishment.
January, 2025
Falls Library
First reading of the year! At the Falls of Schuylkill Library, Saturday, January 18, at 3 PM. I'll be reading from my most recent novel, 2 A.M. in Little America. I'll also discuss writing and reading in general and my next book, A Hole in the Story.
December, 2024
Announcing A Hole in the Story
My fifth novel, A Hole in the Story, has reached the stores. In a starred advance review, Kirkus calls it "an edgy, discomfiting look at the alpha males of journalism in the age of #MeToo."
April, 2024
Palace Fortress
In my new short story for the Baffler, "Palace-Fortress," a former revolutionary appears to accept his grim fate as he ends a late-night dinner with the nation's dictator.
September, 2023
Distopia America, conversation with Giancarlo de Cataldo
At the Mantova Literary Festival, "Distopia America," a conversation with Giancarlo de Cataldo.
August, 2023
Festivaletteratura di Mantova
I'm headed to Italy for the Festivaletteratura di Mantova, from Wednesday, Sept. 6 through Sunday, Sept. 10. The program includes a public conversation Sunday at 2:30 PM at the Piazza Castello with the famed Italian writer, Giancarlo De Cataldo. The happy subject: Dystopian America.
December, 2022
Vulture 2AM in Little America
Link: The Best Books of 2022
2AM Vulture
2AM@No. 7! Vulture names the novel in its best-of-year list.
November, 2022
Le Due del mattino a Little America
The Italian edition, "Le due del mattino a Little America," translated by Monica Capuani, has just been published by Fandango Libri.