I’ll be on KPBS Midday Edition on Tuesday Oct 21 at 12:38pm sharp to discuss Indian gaming, haunted casinos and the horrors of novel writing addiction. If you’re in San Diego, be sure to tune in! 

Write up on the all-star cast of writers I’ll be joining tomorrow night at The Empty Bottle in Chicago at Curbside Splendor’s Words + Music 6.

For my last stop on the Forest of Fortune tour before I head back to SoCal, I’m super stoked to be reading in Chicago with Joe Meno and Curbside SPlendor authors at Words+Music #6. This event will be held at The Empty Bottle at 1035 N. Western Ave. Show starts at 9pm. Free with RSVP. I’m bringing my mother so you know it’s going to be EXTRA filthy…

On a brutally hot autumn day in L.A. I had a chance to sit down and talk with Colin Marshall for the Los Angeles Review of Books podcast. If you are familiar with Colin’s work at Notebook on Cities and Culture, you know he is a brilliant observer of the structures that bring people together, so it should come as no surprise that he zeroed in on Forest of Fortune‘s casino culture. It was also very gratifying to talk about the dispatches I wrote for McSweeney’s about my experiences working in the Indian gaming industry, which I wrote while I was still employed by the casino, but wasn’t able to share because I was afraid of losing my job. I don’t work for the casino anymore and I’m spilling all of my secrets…

I’m reading Sunday October12 at the Three Tents reading series with Pamela Erens, Roy Kesey and Sara Lippman.

The event will be held at The Big Hunt at 1345 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036. Doors at 7pm reading at 7:30.