News

MPR’s Kerri Miller interviews me here.

Author Shawn Otto reviews Cures for Hunger in the Huffington Post.

Cures for Hunger is also one of Amazon Canada’s Best of May editors’ picks.

Cures for Hunger has been selected for the May 2012 Indie Next List.

CBC’s Sonali Karnick interviewed me about Cures for Hunger.

Volume 14 of the Chicago Quarterly Review is now available at Amazon. In it is “An Opera of War,” a short story about an Italian soldier who, shortly after the Second World War, is forced to face his crimes when he takes a job in an opera.

Maisonneuve has just released its 10th anniversary issue in which you can read Cures for Hunger’s most criminal chapter.

On May 15st, 2012, Milkweed Editions will be simultaneously releasing the US editions of Cures for Hunger and Vandal Love. At the same time, Goose Lane Editions in Canada will be launching Cures for Hunger. Vandal Love is already available in Canada through Doubleday. (Both the novel and memoir are also available at Indiebound.org.)

The Deleted Line, one of my short stories, is available in the anthology My Postwar Life: new writings from Japan and Okinawa (edited by Elizabeth McKenzie). Order it at Amazon.com, BN.com, or Indiebound.org.

On March 11th, 2012, the anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Stone Bridge Press released Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction, an anthology whose proceeds go to help teenagers affected by the tsunami. One of my stories is in this collection. Click here for more information about the book. Order at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, BN.com, or Indiebound.org.

For the next few months, while traveling in Central Africa, I will be blogging for Maisonneuve magazine. Find a list of Bonobo Diaries posts here.

Lastly, Maisonneuve recently published a short article of mine, “Off the Record,” about telling fact from fiction in a war zone. (Print version only, available here.)