Last night, at the PEN Gala, I had the privilege of presenting the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award to my dear, amazing, huge-hearted friend Ann Patchett. SO well-deserved! (Thank you @timtalksbooks for these photos!)
Happy to be in possession of the Brazilian edition of BUCKEYE! (Titled THE DAYS) Many thanks to Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. This marks the first publication of one of my books in translation. 🌰
Patrick Ryan’s @patrickryannyc novel, Buckeye, is a New York Times and international bestseller plus a @readwithjenna selection. He is also the author of the story collections The Dream Life of Astronauts and Send Me. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, the anthology Tales of Two Cities, and elsewhere. The former associate editor of Granta, he is the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine One Story. He lives in New York City.
Douglas Stuart’s JOHN OF JOHN comes out on May 5. It’s his third novel and one of the best books I’ve ever read. A beautiful Scottish love story. @douglas_stuart@groveatlantic
When you have the nerve to read an authors work back to him! #ontheknows #randallkennethjones #patrickryan #buckeye #books Watch the entire show! Search for ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth Jones on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!
For #authors #speakers and #artists who think they’ll never be heard, seen, or read. For anyone who thinks they’re too old, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! Search for #OnTheKnows with #RandallKennethJones on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
The idea that a #VILLAIN always justifies his or her actions is not only showcased in the brilliant #BUCKEYEBook by #PatrickRyan but has pervaded our lives on multiple fronts. To listen to the entire interview, look for #OnTheKnows with #RandallKennethJones on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Join us for our Bookaccino Live Book Group Event with Patrick Ryan where we will be discussing his novel, BUCKEYE.
Carol Fitzgerald will interview Patrick and then will turn to readers who would like to share a question for him on screen (we have special sign-in directions for these attendees, and they will get to chat with Patrick in our “backstage green room” before the program starts), followed by audience questions.
If you would like to ask a question on screen, please share it with Carol Fitzgerald at [email protected] by NOON ET on Wednesday, March 25th. PLEASE be sure to include your name, city and state, as well as your question. If you do not want to appear on camera, but still would like to ask a question, please note that you want to be off camera, and share your question — adding your name, city and state.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Junod in Atlanta this summer and hearing him talk about his memoir, IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. It’s a heartbreaking, moving, sometimes alarming, and occasionally frightening book about the larger than life character of Lou Junod, his father.
I've never before read a memoir about fathers and sons that touches so exactly on how hard it is to have a dad you can't resist loving, can't embrace emotionally, don't want to emulate and yet cannot help but see as the definition of what it means to be "a man."
Tom's book publishes this week (3.10.26), and I highly recommend it to all sons, fathers, daughters, mothers, and to anyone who's taken a hard look at their family as a means of understanding both themselves and the people they come from.
On stage for the Key West Literary Seminar with three amazing writers and dear human beings: Claire Messud, Richard Russo, and David McConnell. 1.9.26 (Photo by @nickdollphotography )
A 2025 gem—I loved this novel by Alice Austen, about the residents of an apartment building in Brussels on the eve of the Nazi occupation. Told in multiple first-person voices. Rich in characters and in heart. If it slipped beneath your radar, it’s worth adding to your TBR list!
