Category: One for Sorrow
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En Francais
This was very cool to find. I’m glad I can read French!
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Washington Post Review
A really pleasant surprise this morning. Though I don’t think it will appear in print until tomorrow, One for Sorrow has been reviewed in The Washington Post. And reviewed well! An excerpt: Traveling through this story with Adam is like a nightmare, but the kind that fascinates you so deeply that when you wake up,…
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Echoes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNETcWhURs] I found this video on YouTube tonight. It’s made by a young woman named Megan in a nearby city. She read One for Sorrow and has taken photos as well as quotes from the book and set them to music by The Bravery. The song totally rocks. Megan says in the beginning of the…
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October Country
At Bookslut Colleen Mondor reviews books for the very Bradburyesque time of year we’re entering: October Country. Included in that roundup are books by Neil Gaiman, Margo Lanagan, and my own One for Sorrow. Here’s an excerpt: What really impressed me about this book was how it was a familiar story on one level and…
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From Ohio to Italy
Good news came yesterday. One for Sorrow is going to be translated and published in Italy by Elliot Edizioni! I’ve always wanted to visit Italy (Europe in general, but definitely Italy is at the top–Venice, what’s more magical than a city where the streets are made of water?). My book is going to make it…
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A Glorious Sunday
Not only did Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik win the middleweight championship in seven rounds tonight, giving it up to Youngstown in the interview afterward, the town that sent him off with a pep rally which people talked about on TV as if it were not as sophisticated as it should be, you know, pep rallies…
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Cleveland Tomorrow
I’ll be in Cleveland tomorrow, at Mac’s Backs, reading with Catherynne Valente at 5 p.m. during the Coventry Crawl. I love it when shops put their wares on the street all on the same day. I’m going up ahead of time for a little shopping. If you’re in the area around 5, stop by and…
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Vindicator Review
A very nice review of One for Sorrow in one of the local papers: Chris Barzak’s first novel, “One for Sorrow,” is like a window into the metaphysical world. Told through the voice of a troubled but honest teen, it’s depiction of what it’s like to be unhappily dead is so believable, it’s like a…
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Walking the Plank: Zen Edition
Jeff Vandermeer does interviews with authors who have books that have recently come out. He calls his interview series Walking the Plank, and asks the writer questions in an interrogative form similar to that of being stuck out on a plank with many pirates pointing their sharp swords into your chest or back, depending on…