Bill Cheng

I’m off to Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN, co-owned by the great Ann Patchett. Reading starts at 6:30 so see you there!

Another FANTASTIC time last night, this time in Oxford, MS.

Above, a plaque celebrating the words of James Meredith who was the first African-American student admitted into the University of Mississippi, desegregating the school.

Middle, The typewriter of somebody who knows what he’s doing (Hint:  That somebody is William Faulkner)

Bottom, a chump at the brilliant Square Books’ event space, Off Square Books.

Thanks so much to Richard Howorth and John Currence of City Grocery, and the great novelist and poet tag-team Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly who came by and heard me read!

Above:  Robert Johnson at the Dotcom building of Lemuria Books

Below:  The fledgling and awesome author series at the Library Lounge at the Fairview Inn

Jackson, you’ve been an amazing host!  Today I’m headed off to Oxford with a stop over in Greenwood.   

Here I am at Lemuria Books. Thanks so much to Joe and John and all the fantastic people there who made this New Yorker feel so welcome.

And so the Southern tour begins…

I’ll be at Lemuria Books in Jackson, MS today, doing a signing at 5:00 and a reading at 5:30.  So come on out!

See you later, New York.

I’m going to Jackson.  At Lemuria Books specifically.  See you Monday at 5:30!

mulhollandbooks:

From Brain Pickings’s feature on The Letters of Raymond Chandler. Totally worth reading the article—and the letters themselves!—in full.

(via karanablue)

harpercollins:

Look whose mom bought Southern Cross the Dog, debut novel by Bill Cheng, after reading Julie Bosman’s profile in the New York Times: “Seeing Mississippi Sight Unseen…”

Just be warned, moms… things get vivid.

Thanks so much to Raj, author of the fantastic collection I AM AN EXECUTIONER: Love Stories, who came out and brought a friend to the Harvard Book Store last night!

Thanks Greenlight Bookstore.  Sorry about the mics!

picadorbookroom:

Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that!

[via: GalleyCat]

oh… but then wouldn’t that be a verb?

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From A.J. Kandathil:

“Remember this: People both reflect and defy the places they are from. It’s our job as writers to make place matter.”

myimaginarybrooklyn:

ffactory:

It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, “We’ll let you know.”

—John Cassavetes

Thanks Greenlight!

And a super thanks to the Greenlight Bookstore for having me last night! 

I’ll try to post pics if anybody can get clear of last night’s drunken haze and send me any…