LORETTA STINSON & LITTLE GREEN

Loretta Stinson has been doing all sorts of book events and interviews for Little Green since it came out on June 1st. The next big dates on the horizon are late August when she sets off for the Bay Area with readings at Green Apple Books on Wednesday, Aug. 25th and at Book Passage on Thursday, August 26th. We’re hammering out the details at the moment but we know that the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium will be participating in the Green Apple event and we’ve got some other things brewing in the area as well with various domestic violence organizations and crisis centers.

Check out this Literary Arts interview with Loretta here.

FRANK MEEINK ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL’S GANGLAND

Frank Meeink of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead has been busy with all sorts of projects. In the middle of his 20-plus city book tour this spring/summer he took time to film this History Channel segment that airs Friday night….

COVER SET FOR LIDIA YUKNAVITCH’S CHRONOLOGY OF WATER

We’re so pleased with the drop dead gorgeous final cover for Lidia Yuknavitch’s upcoming spring 2011 Hawthorne Books title The Chronology of Water — designed by Adam McIsaac at Pinch. And just so you know, there will be a book belly band available for booksellers concerned with the nudity.

SCOTT NADELSON & PLOUGHSHARES

Scott Nadelson’s short story collection Aftermath will be published by us next summer but in the meantime Scott has been busy teaching at Willamette University and, of course, writing, writing and more writing. Ploughshares published Nadelson’s Dolph Shayes’s Broken Arm in its spring 2010 issue guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout and you can read the story in its entirety on their site.

Every once in awhile it’s good to do a roundup of Hawthorne goings-on. The past few weeks we’ve had a lot of great events and press for Hawthorne titles and authors that we’d like to share with you here. Loretta Stinson will be reading at Annie Bloom’s Books in Multnomah Village tonight at 7:30pm and she has a lot of upcoming events. Check out her beautiful revamped website for an up-to-the-minute Loretta schedule. Little Green has also been getting a lot of great reviews and coverage. Here are a few of the latest:

The Rumpus review of Little Green

Biblioklept’s review of Little Green

For all things Loretta Stinson head here...

PETER H. FOGTDAL & THE TSAR’S DWARF

Peter H. Fogtdal’s novel The Tsar’s Dwarf got a great review in the Spring 2010 issue of The Los Angeles Review. If you haven’t checked out this Red Hen Press publication you’re missing out. Included in the issue are stories by Barry Lopez, Tess Gallagher, Rick Bass and Mark Acito.

So happy to get this in the mail...

The Los Angeles Review's review of The Tsar's Dwarf.

MONICA DRAKE & CLOWN GIRL

Monica Drake’s novel Clown Girl continues to get a lot of great press and attention, not to mention the optioning of the novel by SNL’s Kristen Wiig. Here’s the latest Clown Girl review from Rose City Reader.

Still garnering great reviews...

FRANK MEEINK, JODY M. ROY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RECOVERING SKINHEAD

Frank Meeink of Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead is winding down his 20-plus city tour and the media hits keep coming. Tune into The Leonard Lopate Show today or visit the online archives and listen to Frank talk about his past and the book. He will also be on CBS’ The Unfiltered Show.

Check out Frank Meeink on today's The Leonard Lopate Show.

SCOTT NADELSON & PLOUGHSHARES BLOG

Hawthorne Books author Scott Nadelson has been writing regularly over at the Ploughshares Blog. We’ve really been enjoying his posts and think you will too.

A lot of good writing from Scott Nadelson on the Ploughshares blog.

For more information about all of these titles and more please visit the Hawthorne Books website:
www.hawthornebooks.com

Soerine is funny too.

See people are smiling and in a few more seconds they will be laughing because Peter H. Fogtdal is about to start his UCLA reading for them. Laughing with Peter of course...

Hawthorne Books’ author Peter H. Fogtdal recently gave a reading of The Tsar’s Dwarf at UCLA’s The Scandinavian Section and even though it was a sunny mid-day event it was a great turnout.

In his words:

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When you walk around UCLA’s gorgeous campus, you discover that even the buildings are celebrities. I pass Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Herb Albert’s School of Music, and Cher’s Institute for Plastic Surgery. And I marvel how lucky it is that a small time Scandinavian novelist has been allowed to do a reading for this crowd.

Will Jack Nicholson show up, I ask myself? Or do I have to settle for a drunk Charlie Sheen? In my mind I see the crowded auditorium with paparazzi fighting for a photo of Angelina Jolie and me. I picture gorgeous sophomores dragging me to their dorm rooms – against my will, of course.

But unfortunately, I’m not a star. I’m just another Dane with dandruff, so I’m left to babble at The Scandinavian Institute at Royce Hall. In a small room with squeaky chairs and hoarse Norwegians.

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It’s great though.

Thirty people show up. Some of them have to stand in the hall. And hey, most students haven’t even been forced by gun point. However, I don’t count a single celebrity. Their excuses for not coming are so lame. Sandra Bullock said she was practicing her Oscar speech, and Madonna is adopting the country of Malawi. That woman just can’t get enough of anything, can she?

But I’m a humble man. I like people who haven’t been on TV. Unlike everybody else in L.A.

To read more about this and more visit Peter’s blog @ Danish Accent.

Hawthorne Books author Peter H. Fogtdal was born in 1956 in Copenhagen, Denmark and has a degree in playwriting from Cal State Fullerton. He is the author of twelve novels in Danish. Three have been translated into French, two into Portuguese. In 2005 he won The Francophonian Literature Prize (Le Prix Litteraire de la Francophonie) for Le Front Chantilly. The Tsar’s Dwarf is his first novel in English. Peter H. Fogtdal shares his time between Portland, Oregon, and Copenhagen, Denmark.