Jim Shepard will be honored as the 2016 Mentor of the Year at the One Stor’s Literary Debutante Ball. Tickets are still available if you want to attend and support this wonderful organization. For more information, please click here.
Catch Jim at the Cuyahoga County Public Library tonight, at 7:00 pm. Information and registration can be found here.
Then Jim heads south next week! Take a look at the Book Tour section for a full schedule.
If you can believe it, Jim will be in San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee, Chicago and Cleveland this week. Don’t miss a chance to meet him in person and hear an incredible reading from The Book of Aron. Check out the Book Tour section has the complete dates and times for the readings.
Guest host Wyatt Cenac presents a program of stories about drastic solutions and last chances. Master fantasist Steven Millhauser imagines the world covered by a gigantic plastic sphere in “The Dome,” read by Alec Baldwin. Jim Shepard takes us to the greatest recorded natural disaster in history in “Cretan Love Song,” read by Joe Morton, and Mr. Potato Head is not your friend in Nicholson Baker’s “Subsoil,” read by Thomas Gibson.
Click here to listen. Jim’s story can be heard during the first half hour.
He reads the Netherlands Lives with Water and a new short. Jim begins to read about 25 minutes into the video.
Oh, and here’s an interesting blog post about the story.
Hat tip to Michael Maren – Karen Russell, Jim Shepard, Ben Marcus, listening to Sloane Crosley @powerHouseArena on May 24
For more information about the event, click here.
