Still Points North
Still Points North, my memoir about growing up in the wilderness of Alaska is now in stores. You can buy online here:Buy the book:
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Mind-Blowing Reading!
May 10, 2013This Monday, May 13th. Brooklyn. 8pm. Franklin Park
With me and the amazing, generous KAREN RUSSELL (author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Swamplandia) who wrote the cover blurb for Still Points North. And the brilliant take-no-prisoners ELISSA SCHAPPELL (Blueprints for Building Better Girls, Use Me). And the dark, smart ROXANE GAY (Bad Feminist, The Rumpus). And very cool, original MICHAEL HEALD (Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension). Come meet us?
Richmond Junior League Book And Author Dinner (May 1, 2013)
May 01, 2013So excited to be reading at the Richmond convention center tonight with Eben Alexander (Proof of Heaven), Michael Shelden (Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill), Lucinda Scala Quinn (Mad Hungry Cravings) Andrew Gross (No Way Back) and Rhonda Riley (The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope).
We're reading in front of..gulp...1,000 odd people, so if anybody has a particular idea of what to read from Still Points North, please please email me. I need a crowd pleaser!
Coming Home!! Anchorage and Fairbanks!
April 19, 2013Couldn't be more thrilled and happy to come home to Alaska tonight! Thanks so much to the Anchorage Daily News for the amazing profile of Still Points North this Sunday.
Wed. Night 4/24: I'd love if you could join me for a reading the wonderful UAA CAMPUS BOOKSTORE WITH SHERRY SIMPSON ( 2905 Providence Drive Anchorage, 5pm)
Thurs. Night 4/25: Writers, please come to discuss memoir and failed novels at the 49 WRITERS CRAFT TALK at GREAT HARVEST BREAD CO (570 East Benson Boulevard Anchorage, 7:30pm)
Fri. Night 4/26: Everybody please pretty please join us at CYRANO'S with Pulitzer Finalist and fellow Alaskan EOWYN IVEY. Snacks, fizzy beverages and merriment! Also known as: BIG SILLY BOOK PARTY. (413 D Street, Anchorage, 7pm)
Lucky Magazine Outfits Still Points North
April 17, 2013
I'm new to publishing. Getting a New York Times review was a dream come true. So was chatting (oh, so casually) on NPR. But this week, when Lucky magazine picked a power outfit to match Still Points North, I was flabbergasted—in the best of ways. They had me at galoshes. And fake fur.
Still Points North chosen for Elle's Readers Prize!
April 03, 2013
Elle Magazine ran an author smackdown in this month's. Still Points North "warmed readers' hearts" and they put a photo of funny and freaklishly, fabulously talented Meg Wolitzer next to the (lovely) review. Thanks Elle readers!
Still Points North reviewed in The New York Times!
April 02, 2013
Eternal thanks to The New York Times and Susannah Meadows for this beautiful Still Points North review.
Greatest New York day ever!
Leonard Lopate: Interviewed on WNYC.
April 02, 2013
Leonard Lopate on WNYC graciously interviewed me this week. All bases were covered: near death experiences, Great Alaskan Dads, Instant Coffee Moms, and negotiating the distance between.
Available for stream and download here!
Still Points North Excerpt in April Vogue!
March 25, 2013
So pleased to announce the excerpt of Still Points North has hit the stands in the April issue of Vogue! Could not be prouder to be in an issue fronted by Michelle Obama.
And, for anybody interested, we were able to adapt some formerly cut parts of the manuscript in this excerpt, creating a piece of writing you'll never see anywhere else. Please note that the bow and arrow are entirely decorative. I did NOT go squirrel hunting in my apartment.
Lovely lead review in Marie Claire!
March 19, 2013
"ever really stopped to consider how the woman you've become is a result of all the decisions you've made, no matter how monumental or insignificant those decisions might have seemed in the moment?"
Could not be in finer company in this month's book review section of Marie Claire: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel, The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran, All That Is by James Salter and Movement of the Stars by Amy Brill.
Amazon picks Still Points North for it's Best of the Month!
March 18, 2013
I don't know how this escaped me. But Amazon.com just picked Still Points North for it's Best of the Month in biography/memoir! Incredibly honored to be included in this list of amazing new books, alongside such gems as Domenica Ruta's bestselling memoir, With or Without You, and Alan Huffman's difficult biography, Here I am: The Story of Tim Heatherington, War Photographer.
Is is possible to wear a website on your head? If it were, I would be doing it. It goes with my pants and my huge, honking smile.
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