2004 Faulkner Gold Medalist Publishes New Novel
From former Faulkner winner Fred Setterberg, who won the gold medal for Best Essay for his manuscript, “She’s Gone” in 2004 comes his new novel: Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel. According to Fred, it’s all about growing up in a working class suburb during the 50s and 60s, and one of the chapters, titled “Jungle Music” is adapted from his winning essay.
Early reviews of the novel have been encouraging…
“The prose is deliciously generous, precise, and evocative. The voice is wonderful, too, and it pulls the reader deeply into organic, metaphorical territory that gracefully illuminates, among other things, the psychic minefield the American family can be. I love this story!”
– Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
“…a rare find, a book that in so many scenes and shades of story has a eerie prescience for the future of California, even as Fred Setterberg helps us to remember the state’s time of innocence and boom…. He’s funny, wry, and watchtful – a great tour guide to his own place.”
– Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light a Room
“This darkly humorous and affectionate but utterly unsentimental, look at the world of the ‘Greatest Generation’ recreates a time as lost to us today as our own youth. Fred Setterberg is a storyteller with incisive talent and a large heart.”
– John Raeside, founding editor of Oakland’s East Bay Express
To learn more and order the book, visit www.FredSetterberg.com.
Second Skull by Rob Magnuson Smith
Rob Magnuson Smith, who won the Faulkner Society’s gold medal for Best Novel for his work, The Gravedigger, is back in the news! His novel was published by University Press of New Orleans in 2010 to great acclaim. According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Smith’s well-wrought prose beautifully captures the 
tone of an English village and the awakening of a man whose livelihood depends on death but whose fear keeps him from living.”
If you haven’t read the book, do. It’s brilliant.
Now Rob has a short fiction piece in the 9/11 edition of The Guardian. To read it, CLICK HERE.
Rob also has an article releasing in the next edition of Playboy magazine. Stay tuned…
Book & Blog Success for Nicole Kelby!
N.M. Kelby, a frequent finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing competition, has announced her new novel, White Truffles in Winter, about famed chef Escoffier, is scheduled to be published by WW. Norton on November 3, 2011. To read more about the book, visit http://www.nmkelby.com/www.nmkelby.com/White_Truffles_in_Winter.html
Kelby has just created a blog about cooking and eating as Escoffier did, too. “It’s my hope to create interest in Escoffier and his ‘simple’ approach to the plate,” said Nicole. “W.W.Norton and I are trying to create a cooking promo based on these blogs for Martha Stewart and the Food Network to help promote this effort.”
Nicole Kelby has been invited as a faculty member to the 2011 Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans, November 9-13.
Publishing Success for Faulkner Finalist David Armand
This just in from author David Armand:
“I just wanted to send you a quick e-mail to let you know that my book The Pugilist’s Wife – which was twice named a semi-finalist in the Novel and Novella categories in 2009 and 2010, and once as 2nd runner-up in the novel-in-progress category in 2008 (under the title Sun) — was recently named the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize and will be published next fall by Texas Review Press.
“I don’t think I would’ve had the motivation to finish the book had Ms. Grosvenor not chosen it as 2nd runner up a couple of years ago, which enabled me to meet with (editor) Pat Walsh, who really gave me the inspiration to finish writing the book. It was a good morning sitting at the Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone and talking with Pat about my book. That wouldn’t have happened without the work y’all do…”
Thanks David, and we wish you much success!
