On Tuesday, December 8 I’ll be doing my last reading from Prospect Park West at Pen Parentis Literary Salon. This is a new series devoted to parents who are writers. It’s in a very cool hotel you must visit and of course all are welcome (not just parents). I’m reading with AMERICAN BABY author Sam Apple.
Upstairs Library of Libertine Restaurant
Gild Hall Hotel
15 Gold Street
Any train to Fulton Street
Tues., 12/8, 6-8 PM
Suggested donation: $20
There’s a new video up of me on TheAwl of a cooking show, “Cooking the Books” in which famed ex-Gawker writer Emily Gould and I cook Al Di La chef Anna Klinger’s malfatti. Emily was the subject and author of a NYTimes mag piece about the effect of living publicly and has a memoir coming out called And the Heart Says Whatever. I know what her advance was.
We had a great time cooking and it came out delicious (though she put in too much ricotta and felt the dumplings did not hold). Too bad we didn’t go out and buy wine till the end, it would have been more fun. Emily is charming and bright but I wish I had insisted on wearing my boots during the interview so she wouldn’t have towered over me – hard enough appearing, stylist-less, side by side to a dewy, yoga-teaching and childless 28-year-old! During our interview, I tried to terrify young Emily about the incredible responsibility of child-rearing by making it seem dark and terrible but I think she’s going to do it anyway. The malfatti connection to my novel Prospect Park West is that Al Di La is mentioned in it a few times, and of course is one of the Slope’s most famous and popular date-night spots.
Finally, a few words about foreign rights. So far Prospect Park West will be published in
Portugal
The Netherlands
Brazil
Serbia
Japan
Germany
I’ll post the covers when I get them!
