Ben Loory's Blog

I put my year-end wrap-up on my website, if anyone's interested:

https://benloory.com/2023/12/31/what-...

I have a story called "The Rock Eater" up in the new fiction issue of TASTE magazine:

http://www.tastecooking.com/the-rock-...

The Masters Review published a short story of mine called "The Candelabra" as part of their celebration of Short Story Month. You can read it here if you like:

https://mastersreview.com/featured-fi...

i always forget to update this thing... book came out about two weeks ago, things are going well... lots of notices and reviews, won't post them all, but here are a few of the fanciest ones:

the boston globe:
http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-29...

kirkus reviews (starred review):
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-rev...

elle magazine:
http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movie...

there's also a short piece on me in the august issue of nylon magazine, in which there's a photo of me without glasses, which is confusing.

some upcoming book tour dates (just did LA and SF):

thursday, aug 11: montclair NJ @ watchung booksellers

monday, aug 15: brookline, MA @ brookline booksmith

thursday, aug 18: brooklyn, NY @ greenlight books

sunday, aug 21: los angeles, CA @ the hotel cafe

more info about these on my website:
http://www.benloory.com/appearances

and, um, what else? the book is a selection of the barnes & noble "discover great new writers program" for the fall... and starbucks coffee picked it as part of their "bookish reading club" thing for august... also i recorded some stories for kqed when i was up in SF... apparently they'll be broadcast soon though i don't know when quite yet.

that's about all i can think of now. the book went into a second printing. my car broke down but is mostly fixed. no time to read, is my only complaint.

cool stuff happening... 2 nice reviews:

THE AGONY COLUMN (review by Rick Kleffel):

http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2...

BLOGCRITICS.ORG (review by Michael Jones):

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/...

also, got a staff pick mention on the paris review blog (though it didn't really say anything about the book):

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/ta...

they did spell my name "Been," though, which makes me very happy.

also there was a really nice review in the july issue of Locus Magazine, but you can't read it without, you know, buying the magazine... THE NERVE

Shane Jones interviewed me over at HTMLGiant:

http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight...


and there was a nice piece about my book in the galley talk section of publisher's weekly:

http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/p...


as well as this review:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...


and Rae Bryant interviewed me on Matt Bell's blog for short story month:

http://www.mdbell.com/blog/2011/5/31/...


hmmmm... i feel like there was some other stuff, but i can't remember what it was right now.

i feel like maybe i should invest in a scrapbook or something like that.

Some advance review-type things have started coming in... there was this:

http://suvudu.com/2011/04/cool-book-a...

and then also this (which made me almost unbearably happy):

http://mysterieshistories.blogspot.co...

I'll post more stuff here when it comes in... if it comes in... if I don't get hit by a bus...

The nice folks at Stymie Magazine (who recently nominated my story "The Woman Who Skied on the Rooftops of Houses" for both a Pushcart and a storySouth Million Writers Award) posted this interview with me the other day:

http://www.stymiemag.com/2011/02/ques...