Authors Over Easy Breakfast
Tuesday, September 20 - 8:00 - 9:30 am
Hotel Murano Venice Ballrooms
(Tickets required)
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Stephen Markley / The Deluge
America in the very near future is the setting for Stephen Markey’s new novel, The Deluge (Simon & Schuster): a country in upheaval, weather increasingly violent, the government all but impotent, and an unrelenting ecological crisis looming over everything. Markley brings together a diverse cast of characters - a scientist studying undersea methane, a broken drug addict, an advertiser, an ecoterrorist, an actor turned religious zealot – to explore how individuals can find the courage and face the sacrifices needed to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future. NPR called Stephen Markey’s debut novel, Ohio, “A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” He is also the author of the quasi-memoir Publish This Book and the travelogue Tales of Iceland. The Deluge will be published in January, 2023. |
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Dan Flores / Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
The extraordinary history of animals, including the human animal, in North America is wonderfully chronicled by Dan Flores in Wild New World (W.W. Norton). Using genomic science, evolutionary biology and environmental history, Flores’ engaging narrative takes the reader through the twelve-thousand years when humans and animals coexisted on this continent. Flores describes the incredible variety of animals that our species encountered on first arriving in the western hemisphere; some that are long gone, some changed through evolutionary forces, some only recently disappeared, and some, thankfully, that are managing to make a comeback despite the catastrophic consequences of our own success and survival. Dan Flores is the award-winning author of numerous books of non-fiction, including Coyote America and American Serengeti. He is Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. |
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Roshani Chokshi / The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
A fairy tale marriage unravels when a seemingly happy couple returns to the bride’s childhood home in bestselling author Roshani Chokshi’s debut adult novel, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (William Morrow/HarperCollins). Fans of Mexican Gothic and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue will love this atmospheric page-turner, full of dark family secrets, a crumbling manor house, and the shadow of a lost girl. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives. Roshani Chokshi’s novels for young adults and middle-grade readers include The Star-Touched Queen, The Gilded Wolves and the Aru Shah series. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride will be published in February, 2023. |
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Cai Emmons / Livid / Unleashed
Oregon Book Award winner Cai Emmons returns to the show with two new novels this fall. Livid (Red Hen Press/IPS) is the story of a woman suffering from a tragic loss who, when summoned to jury duty, is dismayed to find herself empaneled alongside her ex-husband for a murder trial. Unleashed is set amidst California’s wildfire season and follows a family in crisis as they deal with growing apart even as danger grows outside their door. Unleashed looks at the power of nature, the fragile bonds of family, and the things that sustain us when we are on the verge of losing it all. Cai Emmons is the author of Weather Woman and its sequel, Sinking Islands, and the award-winning His Mother’s Son. She lives in Eugene. |
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Ross Gay / Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross Gay offers up a new collection of essays about something we all could use a little more of: joy. Inciting Joy(Algonquin Books/Hachette) considers the joy we incite by caring for others, and how to turn our attention to what brings us together. Ross Gay is a Guggenheim Fellow, the NYT best-selling author of The Book of Delights, and his poetry has been honored with a National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. |