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Events

I enjoy meeting other readers, and I invite you to Beaverdale Books (https://www.beaverdalebooks.com), my splendid local indie bookstore, in Des Moines, Iowa. I'll happily personalize one of my titles for you. 

I have a number of other books besides those featured here, all available at Beaverdale Books, as well as online and elsewhere. In late summer '24, I enjoyed a small tour of Italy in support of my 2003 novel, Talking Heads: 77, now at last translated into Italian.  

Currently, I'm working on a new novel and pulling together a new selection of criticism, Caliban's Cry: On a Literature Unhoused. Here are two pertinent samples, an essay and a review:
https://lithub.com/the-literary-risk-takers-on-new-migrant-and-refugee-fiction/
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/09/books/chigozie-obioma-the-road-to-the-country/