Ian Frazier

The Secrets of Book Publishing panel will discuss all aspects of breaking into publishing with editors, agents and authors who cross genres. Panelists:

Ian Frazier is a New Yorker staff writer and author of the bestsellers Great Plains and Travels in Siberia and the novel The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days.

Patricia Marx is a staff writer at the New Yorker, who writes children's books, and television scripts, but mainly does errands and looks things up on Wikipedia. Her latest novel is Starting From Happy and her upcoming memoir First Girl tells of being the first woman writer at the Harvard Lampoon.

Renee Watson is a poet, playwright and author of the children's books Harlem's Little Blackbird A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and the young adult novel What Mamma Left Me.

Susan Morrison is an editor at the New Yorker, the former editor of chief of the New York Observer, an original editor of SPY magazine, and author of the book 30 Ways of Looking at Hillary.

Ryan Harbage was an editor at Simon and Schuster, Little Brown and Penguin before becaming a literary agent. He teaches at The New School, Pratt and Mediabistro.

Danielle Perez has published fiction and nonfiction at Random House, Penguin and she's currently the executive editor at NAL.

Moderator Susan Shapiro is a journalism professor and author of 8 books including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Speed Shrinking and Overexposed. (lampbane)… (mais)

Thursday, November 8, 7:30 PM (Rescheduled from October 30!) Ian Frazier discusses The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days with author Carmela Ciuraru

Award-winning humor and nonfiction writer Ian Frazier (author of Coyote vs. Acme, On the Rez, and many other titles) has created an uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days, based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy — beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight — as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller’s and Sylvia Plath’s: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. Frazier will talk about the book, his writing and motherhood with journalist, author and critic Carmela Ciuraru, author of Nom de plume (and a Fort Greene mom).

Note: this event was initially scheduled for October 30 and was rescheduled due to Hurricane Sandy. Thank you for your understanding.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

at The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, NW Metro: Farragut North Ian Frazier

Frazier, like The New Yorker where he’s long been a staff writer, is as likely to produce serious nonfiction (Travels to Siberia, Great Plains) as he is lighter fare. His novel, The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25), features a harried mother of two little boys, doing all she can to keep order. But the domestic center cannot hold, and eventually she collapses in a mess of despair, red wine, and broken glass. This event is co-sponsored with Washington Post Live.

This event is free, but requires registration. Click here to register. Books will be sold on-site by Politics & Prose.

Street: The Washington Post Additional: 1150 15th Street NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20005 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier’s uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $24), centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight—as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller’s and Sylvia Plath’s: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers. Here, Frazier tackles another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, as well as an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy’s failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

Ian Frazier discute Travels in Siberia.

Nancy loves his work. Come in and find out why! Ian Frazier visits with on Thursday, November 4, at 7:30 p.m., with TRAVELS IN SIBERIA, an entertaining and informative narrative which reveals Siberia's role in Russian history and a personal account of his adventures there. You only THINK it's cold here in the winter! (goddesspt2)… (mais)

Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier grew up in Ohio and is the author of Great Plains, On the Rez, Family, Coyote v. Acme, Dating Your Mom, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City and most recently, Lamentations of the Father. He is noted for his humorous essays on contemporary life and travel narratives that explore American history and geography — especially his work about the American West. Frazier has been published in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. He has contributed essays for many books, written on the craft of travel writing and journalism, translated a book and served as editor for The Best American Essays, 1997. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Frazier lives in Montclair, New Jersey. (Ciruelo)… (mais)