News & Readings - Updated 11/1/08

Kirsten’s story “Familial Kindness” recently appeared in the journal One Story (issue 101). Read an interview with Kirsten and buy the story online here.

The anthology Kirsten edited with writer Jacqueline Kolosov, The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Contemporary Writers on Forerunners in Fiction, is now available from Lewis-Clark Press here, and Amazon here.

The anthology includes stories by writers Kim Barnes, Claire Davis, Jill McCorkle, Pam Houston, and Kyoko Mori, among others. Look for news of a reading in the New York City area this fall!

Kirsten’s new collection, Swimming With Strangers, is due out from Chronicle Books in October. Pre-order the book here.

Upcoming Readings:

Kirsten will read as part of the Behind the Book series at the KGB Bar (85 East 4th St., NYC) at 7 p.m. on November 13th. More information on the reading and the series is available here.

She will also read for One Story on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at Pianos in Manhattan’s Lower Eastside. Check back for additional details.

 

Kirsten’s Reading Recommendations:

Frances Hwang’s Transparency: Stories (Back Bay Books)	Lily Hoang’s Parabola: A Novel (Chiasmus Press)
Tessa Hadley’s Sunstroke and Other Stories (Picador)	Laura Van Prooyen’s Ink Blot and Altar: Poems (Pecan Grove Press)
Jacqueline Kolosov’s Vago (Lewis-Clark Press)	Jennifer Maier’s Dark Alphabet: Poems (Southern Illinois University)
Ann Hudson’s The Armillary Sphere: Poems (Ohio University Press)	Alice McDermott’s After This (Dial Press)
Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (Picador)	John Berger’s To the Wedding (Pantheon)
Alice Munro’s Selected Stories (Knopf)	Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion (Vintage)
Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories (P.S.) (Harper Perennial)