Thursday, July 30, 2009

Tonight's Ustream Reading: Special Guest Matt Bell

Hi, Everyone--

Thank you for joining us at Ustream for the first two readings. Just a quick reminder: this evening is our third and final reading.

Matt Bell, author of How the Broken Lead the Blind, The Collectors, and the forthcoming How They Were Found (from Keyhole Press) will be joining us as a special guest reader. I'm knocked out by Matt's stories and his careful eye for detail, so it's an understatement to say I'm beyond excited to hear him read.

If you're able, please join us at 8PM Central at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/one-of-these-things or catch the live-stream (and archived videos) at http://www.keyholemagazine.com

Monday, July 27, 2009

New Release, Good Deals, and Live Readings Online

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, has been officially released and is now shipping. Twenty-one stories, 178 pages, and it will only cost you $13.95. Shipping is free!
For only $5 more, get an issue of Keyhole with One of These Things Is Not Like the Others. Or for $4 dollars more, you can get Thomas Cooper’s chapbook Phantasmagoria.
http://www.keyholemagazine.com/books/stephanie-johnson/one-of-these-things

LIVE e-READINGS:
Three nights this week, I will read from my new book (online only). The readings are free and available online here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/one-of-these-things

Reading Schedule:
Tuesday, July 28 - 8pm central
Wednesday, July 29 - 8pm central
Thursday, July 30 - 8pm central

Praise for One of These Things Is Not Like the Others
“There is, in Stephanie Johnson’s stories, a profound, unflashy magic of seeing. She puts you right up to the beating hearts of her people—from which vantage, you see how they miss one another, and you understand as odd, perfect miracles their moments of connection and knowledge.”—Scott Garson, author of American GymnopĂ©dies

“Stephanie Johnson is a great writer, and I'm consistently impressed by how her quiet, unassuming characters manage to sneak past my defenses to blow me away, story after story.—Matt Bell, author of The Collectors and How the Broken Lead the Blind

“Stephanie Johnson’s fiction—like Raymond Carver’s—celebrates the idea that less, on the page, can be more: her stories are at once lean and rich, poignant and wry, insightful and evocative. An impressive debut.”—Jessica Treadway, author of And Give You Peace and Absent Without Leave

“Stephanie Johnson can accomplish in five hundred words what some writers can only do in five thousand: a complete arc of narrative with compelling characters struggling through the web of human frailties, entangled in passion and dependancy, love and betrayal, insight and ignorance.”—Jeff McMahon, Editor of Contrary


http://www.oneofthesestories.com

Thursday, July 23, 2009

One of These Things is Not Like the Others: Now Shipping

"One of These Things is Not Like the Others" the book is out! pick up a copy for $13.95, or buy with a copy of Keyhole for only $5 more http://keyholemagazine.com/books -- and free shipping!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Interview: Recommended Reading

Ravi Mangla asked me to participate in his Recommended Reading project. You can read my interview (as well as great interviews with Matt Bell, Scott Garson, Barry Graham and many others) here: http://readreadreadreadreadreadread.blogspot.com/2009/07/stephanie-johnson.html.