Tag: Tin House

• Shelf Talker Shelf Talker Shelf Talker…

  What the heck is a Shelf Talker you ask? It’s one of those pieces of cardstock paper you see on a bookstore’s shelf that tells you when an employee really loves a book and wants to draw attention to it. I think the best bookstores are the ones full of passionate readers always willing to…

  Kevin Sampsell

  January 14, 2014

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  Annalemma, Ben Mirov, Books, Bookselling, CA Conrad, Caketrain, Chelsea Martin, Chloe Caldwell, David Ohle, Donald Dunbar, Emily Kendal Frey, Gary Lutz, Gregory Sherl, Heather Christle, Ian Svenonius, Jake Levine, Jamie Iredell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kendra Grant Malone, Kim Chinquee, Lara Glenum, Maggie Nelson, Mary Miller, Mathias Svalina, Michael Bible, Mike Topp, Myriam Gurba, On Subbing, Paul Fattarusso, Powell’s, Publishing, Riley Michael Parker, Shelf Talkers, Small Press, Spork, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Tin House, Zach Plague

• This and This and This Is Between Us

  Psssst. My new book snuck* into stores a few days ago and peoples be talking about it! Here are some of the fun places to read up about it… *A cool interview with Los Angeles arts blog, Yay! LA. This was a phone interview and I spoke with Daniel for about an hour while doing…

  Kevin Sampsell

  November 8, 2013

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  Bunk Bar, Busking at the Seams, Bustle, htmlgiant, lips, PDXX Collective, portland mercury, Powell’s, Reviews, This Is Between Us, Tin House, Yay LA

• The Sweltry Recap of NY/BEA

  I’m back from hot and sweaty New York! This past weekend I was there to attend Book Expo of America and to meet various booksellers and talk up my upcoming novel, This Is Between Us. I had a great time. Here are some pics… I saw a lot of friends at BEA. One of the…

  Kevin Sampsell

  June 3, 2013

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  Ariel Maccarone, BEA, Beth Lisick, Gary Lutz, Joseph Riippi, Michelle Tea, New York City, Penina Roth, Pop Fest NYC, Sean H. Doyle, Susie Bright, The Out NYC, This Is Between Us, Tin House, Unnameable Books

• Horizontal News

  Some sweet action coming up on the horizon… I’ll be going to New York at the end of the month to attend Book Expo of America, which is the big convention the publishing industry has every year. I’ve gone a few times before in the past, mostly as part of my Powell’s job as an…

  Kevin Sampsell

  May 4, 2013

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  BEA, Best American Essays, Cheryl Strayed, Events, Poets & Writers Magazine, Polly Bresnick, Tin House, Unnameable Books

• Moving Into The Tin House

  After two years of hard work, dizzy confusion, doubt, sadness, and eventual triumph, I recently finished work on a novel titled This Is Between Us. That was the first (and hardest) part. The second part is selling the darn thing. And I’m happy to announce that it is now SOLD! At some point in late…

  Kevin Sampsell

  November 15, 2012

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  Alexis M. Smith, Leni Zumas, Masie Cochran, Novel, Portland fiction, This Is Between Us, Tin House

• Weekday! And Weekend!

  Hi Friends! I have two little fictions in the new issue of WEEKDAY, the cool journal printed right in front of your eyes at the Publication Studios in Portland, Oregon. This issue (their third) even has a cool embossed border and title printed on it. Editor Patricia No told me they were going for something…

  Kevin Sampsell

  October 12, 2012

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  Bingo, Booty Call, Chloe Caldwell, Publication Studio, Sarah Mirk, Tin House, WEEKDAY, Wordstock