David Gordon: April 2010

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thanks to Bookslut's Mystery Strumpet

In his column Five Off the Top, Mystery Strumpet Clayton Moore trumpets the Serialist:

"Last month's winner for funniest book of the month was a killer."

http://www.bookslut.com/mystery_strumpet/2010_04_015930.php

Friday, April 16, 2010

New York Reading - April 21st at Mixer

I will be reading from The Serialist, along with writers Ali Liebegott, Cheryl B, Suzanne Gardiner and musician Tami Hart.
Mixer is at Cakeshop
152 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
April 21
7pm - 9pm
Come on out!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Thanks to the Winnipeg Free Press!

"If you can judge a writer's abilities by a single novel, then you'd have to say that Gordon, who lives in New York City, is terrifically talented.

He deftly mixes humour and drama, telling a rather grisly story with an offbeat style that makes us laugh, and then makes us feel a bit uncomfortable that we were laughing. Not just a good first novel, but an excellent novel, period."

-- David Pitt

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/books/watch-your-neck-around-deavers-plot-twists-89825777.html

Available from Simon & Schuster

A DARK AND STYLISH PAGE-TURNER FROM A BOLD NEW VOICE IN FICTION

Harry Bloch is a struggling writer who pumps out pulpy serial novels—from vampire books to detective stories—under various pseudonyms. But his life begins to imitate his fiction when he agrees to ghostwrite the memoir of Darian Clay, New York City’s infamous Photo Killer. Soon, three young women turn up dead, each one murdered in the Photo Killer’s gruesome signature style, and Harry must play detective in a real life murder plot as he struggles to avoid becoming the killer’s next victim.

Witty, irreverent and original, The Serialist is a love letter to books—from poetry to pornography—and proof that truth really can be stranger than fiction.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“The Serialist is an entertainingly wicked debut. A literary pulp fiction that flays and skewers post-Millennial New York and along the way reinvents the American detective novel. David Gordon has arrived, brash, irreverent and indecently talented.”

—Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill

“David Gordon has gathered up our cultural trash and made of it something magnificent. In the tradition of Bolano, Chandler, and lots of dime novels that most of us pretend to know nothing about, The Serialist makes high art out of serial murders, pornography, soup dumplings and pulp fiction. I adore this book!”

—Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

“The Serialist is a book about many things but above all it’s about storytelling— why and how we tell stories to stay not only sane but also alive. David Gordon writes with style, bite, suspense, humor, and heart. Remember his name. The Serialist is great fun to read and the beginning of a noteworthy career.”

—David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl