News
October, 2012
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June, 2012
Read Russia 2012
I'm taking part in the Read Russia 2012 festival, Thursday, June 7, 6:30 PM, at the Tribeca Screening Room
May, 2012
The Last Englishman
My review of "The Last Englishman" was in the New York Times Book Review Sunday, May 27.
April, 2012
Arkansas
Little Rock: I'm at the Arkansas Literary Festival April 13-15. I'll join the "Tiny Books" panel Saturday, 4pm, in the Main Library.
March, 2012
Equilateral announcement
I'm very pleased to announce that my new novel, Equilateral, will be published April 16 by Bloomsbury.
April, 2011
Egypt Notebook
"Egypt Notebook," about my travels from Cairo into the Western Desert in 2010, appeared in Issue 11 of n + 1.
February, 2011
pu-239 reissue
Milkweed Editions has published a new edition of my 1999 collection, "Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies."
December, 2010
Three Stories
A collection of my recent fiction, "Three Stories," has just been published by Madras Press in a handsome, limited-edition chapbook. Net proceeds go to the Free Library of Philadelphia.
October, 2010
Grossman review
My review of Soviet writer Vasily Grossman's collection of stories and reporting is in the October 17 issue of The New Times Book Review.
May, 2010
Lipsky review
My review of David Lipsky's new book about David Foster Wallace, "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself," is in the May 30 issue of The New York Times Book Review.