Hey Swedes!! Check it:
Meet Nathan Larson at the English Bookshop in Stockholm Gamla stan (Lilla Nygatan 11, Old Town) at 7 pm. August 4. He’ll talk and read from his book (his first reading outside North America). There will time for a chat and book signing also.
see yaz!! xoxo
Hi guys! Check it out tomorrow, Brooklyn!
June 7: Author/Composer/Musician Nathan Larson in conversation with Cara Cannella
Tue, Jun 7 at 8pm at Veronica Peoples Club
FREE EVENT with suggested donation to the New York Public Library
Donate in advance (takeaction.nypl.org) or on-site!
Hey Y’all!! Coming up to the Bay Area shortly, here’s the deal:
Reading at CITY LIGHTS BOOKS May 4th 7PM
Reading at PEGASUS BOOKS BERKELEY May 5th 7pm
Fun! See you theeeeere…….
POPMATTERS wrote up an INCREDIBLY NICE REVIEW of my novel The Dewey Decimal System. Thanks guys!!
Yup I’m out on tour with my book THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM!
Here in L.A. as I write this. Finding a book tour is just like a rock tour, only minus the rock aspect. But I’m meeting some wonderful folks and feeling super duper supported in my first literary outing. Plus I’m playing some pretty prestigious venues (i mean book stores)…
WEST COAST now, check the remaining dates and come out if you can!
WEDS APRIL 27th, 7pm –
BOOK SOUP
Hollywood, CA.
THURS APRIL 28th, 7pm –
STORIES BOOKSTORE
Echo Park, CA.
MAY 4th, 7pm –
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
MAY 5th 7pm -
PEGASUS BOOKS
BERKLEY, CA.
Related links, me and the great Victor Gischler hashing it out
And DEWEY excerpted on MacMillian’s new crime blog
xoxo
Friends in New York City! Come and join me and the lovely Persia Walker in celebration of the release of our books, THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM and BLACK ORCHID BLUES respectively.
We’ll talk smack about our novels, and you can enjoy the company of fancy people as well as light refreshments! And u can smugly tell friends “you were there when” once our shit blows up huge.
APRIL 5TH 2011
The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
New York, NY
See you there! Thank you x Nathan
THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM! BOOK 1 and BOOK 2, THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
(see raves below)
CHECK OUT THE “NEWS” SECTION FOR EVENTS SURROUNDING THESE BOOKS AND RELEASE INFORMATION!
well so I wrote a novel, which is some crazy shit. Not just a novel but book 1 in a series of novels. Then I went and wrote another novel, the second in the series. Christ. And thus I enter yet another pase of my charmed life and I’m very thankful.
PRAISE JAH FOR THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM:
“The perfect blend of dystopia and the hardboiled shamus. It’s great to know that there are still debut novels coming through the pipe that can knock me on my ass. With The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson has announced his arrival with style and clarity. I’ll be first in line for his second novel, and his twentieth.”
—Victor Gischler, author of The Pistol Poets
“Like Motherless Brooklyn dosed with Charlie Huston, Nathan Larson’s delirious and haunting The Dewey Decimal System tips its hat, smartly, to everything from Philip K. Dick’s dystopias to Chester Himes’s grand guignol Harlem novels, while also managing to be utterly fresh, inventive, and affecting all on its own.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning author of The End of Everything
“The Dewey Decimal System is a brilliant and compelling read, and Dewey is a unique protagonist: tough, resilient, smart and okay… nuts, but in the best possible way. We should all be so crazy.”
—Robert Ferrigno
“Nathan Larson’s Dewey Decimal is a combination like no other—in a dystopian landscape, he’s discursive, loves dissing fools, dissecting language and violence, and has a hell of a system. He’s like Walter Moseley’s sometime L.A. hit man Mouse, but with some Chester Himes and Jerome Charyn threaded in. This novel is a love song to New York’s streets and boroughs and people, even when they’re decimated, and Larson’s ‘post-racial’ character, a mutt for all times, is someone I’d follow over and over again through whatever secret paths he finds in this world.”
—Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales
PRAISE FOR THE FORTHCOMING BOOK THE NERVOUS SYSTEM !
“The most incredible thing about Nathan Larson’s The Nervous System is just how credible it is – a ravaged New York City, a postmodern warrior with a code, villains at once smaller and larger than life, the futile human obsession to create order out of chaos. And the prose is perfect, as tweaked and jumpy and memorable as the man known as Dewey Decimal. I’m a Library of Congress girl myself, but Larson’s uncannily original fiction deserves its own number within any system of library classification.” –Laura Lippman, author of What the Dead Know
“Sheer magic and delirious joy, this intellectual giddy riot is the book of the year. The Nervous System is a rock ‘n’ roll paranoid masterclass in invention, with writing so crafted, gifted, I long to quote every line. The mystery is taken to a whole new level of technospeak artistry, and wonderfully witty, like John Kennedy Toole if he’d written a mystery novel and did meth – a lot of it. The warmth of the character seeps through in Dewey Decimal’s love for a devastated New York and still the city sings. The New York Public Library should put up a plaque to the most original PI since Marlowe. OCD never seemed so compelling. Loved it and then some. What a writer.”
–Ken Bruen, author of The Guards
“I’m a sucker for a postapocalyptic setting, and Nathan Larson’s is a doozy; but the real gold here is the voice. I could listen to this guy all day. If you loved The Dewey Decimal System, you’ll love this one too. If you didn’t love The Dewey Decimal System, it’s because you didn’t read it. That’s okay, you can start here. Thank me later.”
–SJ Rozan, Edgar Award-winning author of Ghost Hero
“The Nervous System is an armed-to-the-teeth, punch-in-the-guts, post-apocalyptic page turner. You’ll be afraid to put it down.”
Maggie Estep, author of Hex
Hey folks just a quick one to let you know an limited edition, signed and beautifully hardbound edition of my book THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM is available for order via the Akashic website. You know you want one!! Note however that it’ll be a while before these babies are actually shipped, check the site for details, and see the blabbers from fellow authors below!
Also all three of the films I had worked on at Sundance 2011, MY IDIOT BROTHER, MARGIN CALL, and SILENT HOUSE sold high. Not too shabby! But hey, you think this means I make more money? Think again people! The biz iz what it iz.
PRAISE JAH FOR THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM:
“The perfect blend of dystopia and the hardboiled shamus. It’s great to know that there are still debut novels coming through the pipe that can knock me on my ass. With The Dewey Decimal System, Nathan Larson has announced his arrival with style and clarity. I’ll be first in line for his second novel, and his twentieth.”
—Victor Gischler, author of The Pistol Poets
“Like Motherless Brooklyn dosed with Charlie Huston, Nathan Larson’s delirious and haunting The Dewey Decimal System tips its hat, smartly, to everything from Philip K. Dick’s dystopias to Chester Himes’s grand guignol Harlem novels, while also managing to be utterly fresh, inventive, and affecting all on its own.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar-winning author of The End of Everything
“The Dewey Decimal System is a brilliant and compelling read, and Dewey is a unique protagonist: tough, resilient, smart and okay… nuts, but in the best possible way. We should all be so crazy.”
—Robert Ferrigno
“Nathan Larson’s Dewey Decimal is a combination like no other—in a dystopian landscape, he’s discursive, loves dissing fools, dissecting language and violence, and has a hell of a system. He’s like Walter Moseley’s sometime L.A. hit man Mouse, but with some Chester Himes and Jerome Charyn threaded in. This novel is a love song to New York’s streets and boroughs and people, even when they’re decimated, and Larson’s ‘post-racial’ character, a mutt for all times, is someone I’d follow over and over again through whatever secret paths he finds in this world.”
—Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales
December
Busy, busy, busy people! It’s been a huge couple of months for me, both on a personal and a professional level.
So proud to say that on September 30th my wife Nina gave birth to our son, Nils Oskar Linkous Larson, who is the love of our lives and around whom all things revolve.
Needless to say, it was with mixed emotions that I got the news that one, then two (and possibly three) films I am working on are to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year; both MARGIN CALL, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons, and MY IDIOT BROTHER, with Paul Rudd. I have had the distinct pleasure of working with my new buddy Eric D. Johnson (The Shins, Fruitbats) on the MY IDIOT BROTHER score, and we’ve had a total blast.
Now, for those of us who do what I do or work in post-production in any capacity, the news that you are suddenly working on one or more films that are bound for Sundance means your holidays are shot stone cold dead. No falling asleep in front of the fire with a mug of egg-nog. More like wall to wall work, trying to land these projects in good time for the Big Festival, which is (perversely in my opinion) always at the end of January.
Oh I’ve no doubt I’ll crush it, always do. Just saying. Plus I’m blessed to have any work at all.
I will be at Sundance this year, participating in the BMI Composers Forum. And generally making the scene in my ski pants. Not. (ie not making the scene and not wearing ski pants, i hate winter sports like the Pope hates a Gay Pride festival.)
Other projects? Doing a single shot horror film called SILENT HOUSE, which is lots of fun.
And in terms of le rock, my work with James Iha continues. As well my buddy Erdem Helvacioglu was in town from Istanbul and we began our collaborative recording, which should prove to be a rad freak-out. Plus I am working with a young and very talented Swedish gal named Anna Bergendahl, who would be known to most Swedes for her throw-downs on the Swedish Idol and Eurovision song contests.
My roman noir, entitled THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM, has gotten some great reviews from fellow noir writers. The book comes out in May 2011 on Akashic books…. I do expect that you’ll want to buy it with your money. DIG THE COVER!!!
If that’s not enough mess for one dude I don’t know what is…..
