March 25, 2013, 7 PM. Reading with Carmen Gimenez Smith, Joy Katz, Michelle Gil-Montero and Sherrie Flick at a benefit for LAB at Assemble, 5125 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh 15224.Check out the fabulous baked goods!
Interviewed by Mark Lynch on WICN Public Radio, Worcester, MA
Interviewed by Katie Britton on “The Roundtable” on WAMC Northeast Public Radio
An excerpt from Another Insane Devotion on the UTNE Reader Blog
March 1, 2013. Reading at The Regulator Bookshop, Durham NC. — CANCELED. KEEP AN EYE ON THIS SPACE FOR A RAIN DATE.
February 28, 2013. Reading at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
February 26, 2013. Interview on The Mike Cuthbert Show on AARP Radio (click on “Find a Station”). The interview will be broadcast at noon the next day on Sirius XM.
NEW: February 22, 2013, 12:30-12:50 PM. Interview on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.
February 20, 2013, 5:30. Reading at the City College of New York’s MFA Program, followed by a talk with Guernica‘s Michael Archer.
January 6, 2013. The NYTBR names Devotion an Editors’ Choice.
A scratch behind the ears from The New York Times Book Review: “Not many things are better than a kitten, but a book like this comes close.”
Ploughshares blog writes: “This isn’t just a book about cats or about a divorce, however. These are the handles that Trachtenberg offers us as we ride through territory that it took Proust volumes to explore, and Sappho a lifetime of poems.”
Something nice from the Tampa Bay Times
A beautiful review in the Chicago Tribune: “Surely the best book written about what it means to love cats, and to wonder if they love you, since Carl Van Vechten’s The Tiger in the House.’”
Publication — “Why’s this so good?” No. 67: Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp” on Nieman Storyboard