Tag: Lidia Yuknavitch

• A Few Steps Closer

  Friends! An update on the novel. It’s coming out in November! I finished the copy edits recently (about 14 hours of work–made me realize I still have a few things to learn) and my editor (Hi, Masie!) and I have been receiving some ultra-sweet blurbs from beautiful folks like Jillian Lauren, Patrick deWitt, Davy Rothbart,…

  Kevin Sampsell

  April 17, 2013

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  Alien Boy, Amelia Gray, BEA, blurbs, copy edits, Davy Rothbart, Events, Jess Walter, Jillian Lauren, Lidia Yuknavitch, Nashville, New York, Patrick deWitt, Polly Bresnick, reading, Review Copies, The Place Beyond the Pines, This Is Between Us, Tin House Books

• The Samps Awards For Outstanding Literature

  If you follow me on Goodreads or spy on me when I ride the Max to work, you know that I read a lot. Instead of doing an ordinary top ten kind of deal, I’ll pretend to give out some awards. Imagine it’s a foot tall, shiny gold, statue of me in a rocking chair…

  Kevin Sampsell

  January 2, 2013

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  Best Books 2013, Big Ass Boombox, Cheryl Strayed, Chloe Caldwell, Dan Magers, Elizabeth Berg, Leanne Grabel, Lidia Yuknavitch, Peter Christopher, Shane Allison, Sharon Olds, Zachary Schomburg