More (not quite as new) NEWS
Speech. The Great Glass Sea was awareded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction. Watch Josh’s speech (and previous winner Bob Shacochis’ introduction) by clicking the image below:
Interview: Matt Bell interviews Josh for The Brooklyn Rail. Click image to read:
List: BuzzFeed lists The Great Glass Sea as one of 22 Most Exciting Literary Debuts of 2014. Click image to read:
Conversation: Josh Weil interviews Christian Kiefer on LitHub. Click image to read:
Interview: Josh Weil interviews Christian Kiefer on LitHub. Click image to read:
Interview: Alex Espinoza interviews Josh for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Click image to read:
Essay: Josh writes about discovering what it means to him to be Jewish. Click image to read:
Conversation: Josh Weil and William Pierce talk about writing and life on the Tin House blog. Click image to read:
Essay: Josh Weil writes about the craft of planting throughlines in fiction for Glimmer Train. Click image to read:
Interview: Susan Larson interviews Josh for The Reading Life on WWNO. Click here to listen.
Praise: Janet Fitch praises The Great Glass Sea in The Millions. Click image to read:
Essay. Josh writes about Putin’s appeal inside Russia for Time.com: Click image to read:
List: The Washingtonian names The Great Glass Sea one of their Top 10 books for August. Click image to read:
Interview: Kojo Nnamdi interviews Josh on NPR. Click image to listen:
List. The Christian Science Monitor names The Great Glass Sea on of the top 10 books for July. Click image below to read:
Review. The Christian Science Monitor reviews The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Blog: The Quivering Pen. David Abrams writes about the prose in The Great Glass Sea. Click here to read:
Review. John Freeman reviews The Great Glass Sea for The Boston Globe. Click image below to read:
Interview: Deborah Kalb interviews Josh about The Great Glass Sea. Click here to read:
List: Buzzfeed names Josh one of 20 under 40 Debut Writers You Need to be Reading. Click image for more
Review. The New York Times Sunday Book Review of The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Essay. Josh writes about love and Russia. Click image to read.
Excerpt: “So Long, So Lonesome”, an excerpt from The Great Glass Sea livepage.apple.comon the Tin House blog. Click image to read:
Interview. Powell’s Books interviews Josh. Click image below to read:
Blog Post: The Pg. 69 Test. Josh discusses a single page of The Great Glass Sea as a way into the whole novel. Click here to read:
Blog Post: Writers Read. Josh discusses the books he’s reading right now. Click image below to read:
Review. The Los Angeles Times reviews The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Review. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reviews The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Essay. “Back in the USSR: Looking for the Russia I Once Knew”, an essay in The New York Times Magazine. Click image to read:
Playlist. Largehearted Boy posts a playlist of songs — a soundtrack to The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Selection. Powell’s Bookstore picks The Great Glass Sea as #48 in their subscription program. Click image below for more:
Extract. “Once Was Dark”, an extract from The Great Glass Sea in Granta Online. Click image to read:
Excerpt. “Waterborne”, an excerpt from The Great Glass Sea in Guernica. Click image to read:
Short Story. “Long Bright Line”, a short story in the Virginia Quarterly Review. Click image to read:
Selection. Huff Post Books picks The Great Glass Sea as a Book of the Week. Click image below to read:
Selection. Bustle picks The Great Glass Sea for “July 2014’s Best Books: 8 Must-Reads”. Click image below to read:
Review. Publisher’s Weekly reviews The Great Glass Sea. Click image below to read:
Selection. The Great Glass Sea selected for the L.A. Times’ Summer Books Preview. Click image below for more:
Review. Fantasy Literature gives The Great Glass Sea a great review. Click image below to read:
New Short Story. A flash fiction piece called “Pawn” in This Land’s Imaginary Oklahoma series (click image below:
Review: Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles. David Woodbury posts about Josh’s civil war era novella “Solarium” (recently published in American Short Fiction). Click to read.
Book of the Week: The Fiction Writer’s Review. Jeremiah Chamberlian selects The New Valley as the book of the week. Click to read.
Op-Ed in The New York Times: Josh’s personal essay, The Summer that Ended All Summers.
The Quivering Pen: In conversation with The New Yorker’s recent list of 20 best new authors under 40, David Abrams compiles an alternative list of his own, including The New Valley. Click to read.
Interview: Marissa Bell Toffoli interviews me for a nice new author-interview site: Words With Writers.
Interview: Baltimore-based writer Meghan Kenny interviews me for the Balitmore-based JMWW. Click on the image to read.
The National Book Foundation posts some great videos of the 5-under-35 event. Click to see interviews with, and readings by, me and the other four honorees.
Ploughshares Review: Sherrie Flick reviews The New Valley in one of the best literary journals around. Click to read.
Largehearted Boy, one of my favorite blogs, includes The New Valley (alongside books by my friends CE Morgan and Robert Goolrick) in a list of Favorite Novels for 2009 . Click to read.
Margo Rabb, a great writer with a great blog, posts an interview with me. Click to read.
Sabra Wineteer writes about four authors’ varied views of the American South (I’m one, and so is my pal Skip Horak) in The Rumpus. Check it out Here.
Francis M. at The blog Booking Around writes a thoughtful review of The New Valley. Click to read.
The New York Times books blog Paper Cuts posts Stray Questions for Josh Weil. Click to read.
The New York Times books blog Paper Cuts posts Stray Questions for Josh Weil. Click to read.
The blog Booking Around reviews The New Valley. Click to read the review.
Granta publishes an essay of Josh’s, One Ridge Over, about the land and people upon which The New Valley is based. Click to read the essay.
Jamie Kornegay of Turnrow Books posts a piece on the bookstore’s blog about my reading there, The New Valley, and novellas in general. Click to read it.
Poets & Writers Includes The New Valley in their summer reading list. Click to read the list.
Poets & Writers publishes my essay, My Novella Dilemma: Making the Case for a Maligned Form, in the July/August issue.
The Rumpus reviews The New Valley. Click to the review.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review picks The New Valley as an EDITOR’S CHOICE. Click to read.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review reviews The New Valley. Click to read
Book Notes Essay on Largehearted Boy. Click to read my music playlist for The New Valley.
Narrative Magazine publishes “Osby”, a story derived from excerpts of The New Valley, in the spring paperback issue. Click here to read the story online.
New Interview: “On the Couch with Josh Weil” on Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books. Click to read.
The New Valley Publication Date set: June 3, 2009!