These days I read almost exclusively in bed at night. Before I had kids I read all the time, on the bus, at lunch, before I’d write, whenever I could. But with two small kids, my time right now is almost never my own, so I read in little bursts before I pass out, the book usually smacking me in the face as it falls from my hands, reminding me to turn off the light and go to sleep. ...See what Malone is reading HERE.
And in this week's Portland Mercury, writer Joshua James Amberson has an awesome review of People Like You:
A woman loading a pooping goose into her boss' BMW. An 18-year-old girl on a road trip with her older fiancé, his chain-smoking mother behind the wheel. A pregnant woman crouching in the bushes with a bottle of good wine in one hand and an industrial spotlight in the other, listening to strangers have sex. Scenes like these are typical in People Like You, the debut short-story collection from Portland author Margaret Malone, out this week from local Atelier26 Books.
In its nine stories, daily dramas and communication breakdowns pile up among characters who are drifting and unsure ...Read the rest HERE.
Finally, have you seen the killer People Like You book trailer by director Brain Padian? It was featured by David Abrams in this week's installment of Trailer Park Tuesday at The Quivering Pen. Abrams writes, "I didn’t intend to make this Margaret Malone Week here at The Quivering Pen; it’s just going to turn out that way," and calls the trailer "a two-minute reel of film that will jar your senses and shake loose that honey from your bones."
Read the rest and see the trailer HERE.
Margaret Malone will read in Portland this Saturday (11/21) at the People Like You Book Launch Celebration (balloons! live music!) and on Sunday (11/22) at Powell's City of Books, where she will be joined in conversation by Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water.
More details on our EVENTS PAGE.
