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Schaffner Press News: April-May 2009
THESE PAST WEEKS have seen a flurry of activity for Schaffner Press and most notably authors Marc Blatte (HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED) and Katherine Dunn (ONE RING CIRCUS: Dispatches from the World of Boxing).
Both authors attended the Los Angeles Festival of Books held on the UCLA campus April 24-26, at which over a hundred and fifty thousand book lovers congregated over the course of two beautiful and breezy days. Marc Blatte held forth and signed books for BookSoup and Mystery Bookstore while Katherine Dunn signed at BookSoup and then, later in the day, took part in a panel discussion moderated by radio pundit Michael Silverblatt on the topic “Changing Directions.”
Here is what one enthusiastic blogger had to say about the event: ” Listening to Michael Silverblatt, Pico Iyer, Katherine Dunn, Bernard Cooper and Geoff Dyer talk about … well, nearly everything, in one of the most capacious and thoughtful panels of its kind we’ve ever seen. We suspect this one will enter the pantheon of greats, a panel that those who were there will always look back on reverently. (The nominal topic was intersections of fiction and non-fiction but Silverblatt slipped the surly bonds of the rubric and the panel soared.)”
Continuing on his success at the Fair, Marc Blatte held a reading/signing at Barnes and Noble the Following Monday, April 27th and then made an appearance at the Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego on Tuesday, the 28th before heading back to New York. Further reading and signing events for HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED are planned for several venues in New York, the East Coast and the Hamptons. New dates and venues will be posted on this blog in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile Katherine Dunn has a hometown welcoming in store for her at Powell’s City of Books (www.powell’s.com) on Wednesday, May 13th at which she will give a reading and signing.
More to come soon…
TS
