Falter Kingdom was recently listed as a notable August book by Tor.com alongside a number of amazing books. Click here for all the details.
Author: Michael Seidlinger
TeenReads Guest Post: How I Learned to Love to Read
I wrote about how I didn’t used to read (much less write) and was far more interested in music before one book clued me into what I’d been missing. Click here for the post.
Volume 1 Brooklyn’s August 2016 Book Preview
I spy FALTER KINGDOM, by *this guy*, Tobias Carroll’s TRANSITORY, Annie DeWitt’s WHITE NIGHTS IN SPLIT TOWN CITY, Jim Ruland/Keith Morris’ MY DAMAGE, Leigh Stein’s LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, Teju Cole’s KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS, Kristin Dombek’s THE SELFISHNESS OF OTHERS, Matías Celedón’s THE SUBSIDIARY, and more.
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The 10 Best Books to Read This August
August is the final month of the summer book season, and it seems like many publishers were saving their most eclectic, off-beat titles for the sign of Leo. In The Last Days of New Paris, the City of Light detonates a “surrealist bomb” to repel the Nazi occupation in 1940. In Mr. Eternity, an old sailor who calls himself Daniel Defoe claims to be 560 years old. And in The Trees, an English suburb turns into a forest overnight.
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, August 2
“Máni Steinn is gay in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme. His city, Reykjavik in 1918, is homogeneous and isolated and seems entirely defenseless against the Spanish flu, which has already torn through Europe, Asia, and North America and is now lapping up on Iceland’s…
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Unnamed Press Expands into YA
Publishers Weekly profiled me and Unnamed Press in regards to my latest, FALTER KINGDOM (out 8/9). Click here for the article.
Misfits Mag: Michael J Seidlinger Q&A
Wherein Richard Brammer asked me about death, the new manuscript, selling out, and more over at Misfits Mag / Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Click here for the interview.
THE MODERN SISYPHUS: ALBERT CAMUS GOES ONLINE
Wherein I modernize Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”–taking the struggle online–for Literary Hub. Click here for the essay.
Interview & Excerpt @ Connotation Press
Karen Stefano interviewed me about publishing, inspiration, loneliness and more over at Connotation Press.
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A Brief Interview with Michael J. Seidlinger
Michael Tager profiled me for What Weekly.
MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER HAS A LOT OF ENERGY. He doesn’t stop moving, even while talking or listening or eating tater tots. He doesn’t fidget so much as he constantly notices the world around him. There’s nothing birdlike about his features, but the way his head tilts as he examines a menu or the questions an interviewer throws his way suggest otherwise.
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