At Square Books in Oxford with Richard Howorth and team. Besides operating the three bookshops on the square, the store also hosts the live broadcasts of Thacker Mountain Radio once a week. Lisa Howarth, on the right, has her first novel coming out in May 2014 with Bloomsbury. And here’s another picture of Mr. Faulkner, … Read more
Here’s a selfie with Jamie Kornegay, owner of TurnRow Books in Greenwood, MS. I was there to sign books yesterday. Jamie’s first novel, “Soil,” is coming out in Fall 2014. It sounds awfully good. Look for it. Greenwood, by the way, was the stand-in for Jackson, MS, in the movie The Help. Jamie and family … Read more
Thanks to Jennifer Hamilton and her favorable review of The Night of the Comet in Point of Vue Magazine in Houma, La.–the town that’s the model for the fictional Terrebonne in my novel. The Night of the Comet Posted by Jennifer Hamilton on Jul 31, 2013 in 2013, August 2013, Check It Out, Column, Literary … Read more
This from the site Campaign for the American Reader: What is George Bishop Reading? Instead of describing what I’m reading now, I thought it might be more interesting to look at what I was reading while I was writing my latest novel, The Night of the Comet. During the thick of working on Comet, I … Read more
The “Woodstock” song that I posted last week got me thinking of all the popular songs with astronomical themes. Here’s another one: Bad Moon Rising, by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This is a video of them performing the song live on the Johnny Cash Show in 1969.
At the New Orleans Cabildo Museum, with Faulkner House Books owner Joe DiSalvo, me, authors Rick Barton and Lolis Elie, and event organizer and socialite extraordinaire Rosemary James.
You’ll probably want to pick up a copy of the Aug. 12 issue of People magazine, the one with Kate and Baby George on the cover. There’s also this, on page 66:
Look what I saw in the Baton Rouge/New Orleans Advocate today: Guess what’s my new favorite bookstore?
Check out Google’s homepage today. That’s Maria Mitchell, the first professional female American astronomer. The comet she discovered in 1847 (by spying from her roof?) became known as “Miss Mitchell’s Comet.” King Frederick of Denmark awarded her a medal for her achievements; the medal read, “Not in vain do we watch the setting and rising … Read more
This from the Huntington News (W. Va.), July 30. Thanks, David Kinchen. ‘Night of the Comet’: Coming of Age, Midlife Crises Come Together During 1973 Comet Watch Monday, July 29, 2013 – 23:03 REVIEWED BY DAVID M. KINCHEN “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. … Read more