Monday, July 29, 2013

In The New York Times...

...brilliant jacket designer Lynn Buckley explains how
she came up with the awesome cover for MYSTERY GIRL and shares some earlier designs. She is the coolest.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/07/30/books/30book-covers.html?smid=pl-share

Saturday, July 27, 2013

What's On Page 69 of MYSTERY GIRL?

Sex, anger and a drunken argument about literature of course.
The Page 69 Test

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 2013

"Mystery Girl"

David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell

First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fenceamong other publications.

Gordon applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Mystery Girl, and reported the following:

http://page69test.blogspot.com/2013/07/mystery-girl.html

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MYSTERY GIRL is a BOOKPAGE TOP PICK

“We have here a love story (two, actually), a dark comedy and some darn fine suspense, as well. David Gordon is an astute observer of the Los Angeles scene, a natural storyteller and an all-around funny guy. Mystery Girl deserves to be at the top of your reading list.”

– Bruce Tierney, Bookpage, Top Pick selection

http://bookpage.com/column/a-serial-killer-cleared-for-takeoff

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Good news from France!

Elle magazine picks Polarama as a summer read!

http://www.elle.fr/Loisirs/Livres/Dossiers/Top10/Livres-le-top-ten-de-2013/Polarama-de-David-Gordon-Actes-Sud

Friday, July 19, 2013

Thanks to the venerable Mysterious Bookshop in New York:

MYSTERY GIRL is the August pick for their Hardboiled Crime Club...

It's an honor to be a member!

Thanks to Bustle for a great interview:

MYSTERY NOVELIST DAVID GORDON ON 'MYSTERY GIRL' AND THE MYSTERIES OF LOVE AND LIFE

Claire Luchette

7 hours ago

http://www.bustle.com/articles/1940-mystery-novelist-david-gordon-on-mystery-girl-and-the-mysteries-of-love-and-life

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

MYSTERY GIRL IS AVAILABLE TODAY!

And thank you to Bruce DeSilva for the wonderful review:

Review: David Gordon’s ‘Mystery Girl’ is a darkly comic, stylish literary thriller

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/review-david-gordons-mystery-girl-is-a-darkly-comic-stylish-literary-thriller/2013/07/16/0bef8e8e-ee33-11e2-bb32-725c8351a69e_story.html

Thursday, July 11, 2013

If you're in NY, please stop by:

Book Launch: Mystery Girl by David Gordon

with Rivka Galchen

Thursday Aug 01, 2013

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

THE POWERHOUSE ARENA [Dumbo]
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

For more information, please call 718.666.3049

RSVP appreciated: RSVP@powerHouseArena.com
-or-
Please fill out the “Bookings” form at the bottom of this page.

Drinks will be served.

About MYSTERY GIRL:

David Gordon’s 2010 debut novel The Serialist danced across genre lines with wanton abandon. Praised as “a killer debut” (Los Angeles Times), “a tour de force” (Kirkus), and “among the most unusual and appealing of this year’s debut thrillers” (Booklist), it went on to win the prestigious Cabell First Novel Prize, be named a finalist for the Edgar Award, and sweep all three major awards for foreign crime fiction in Japan (where the major motion picture adaptation premieres this month).

Now Gordon returns with his highly anticipated follow-up: MYSTERY GIRL: A Novel, a darkly comic literary thriller that combines razor-sharp satire, brilliant plot twists, and a loving homage to all things dark and weird.

Sam Kornberg is a failed experimental novelist with a collapsing marriage living in L.A. Desperate for work (or more accurately, desperate for a job to tell his wife about), he answers an ad from a portly (ok, obese), housebound private detective named Solar Lonsky, a man as brilliant and charismatic as he is (possibly) insane. Sam’s assignment to track a mysterious woman is the trigger for a tense, smart, and often screamingly funny story involving sexy doppelgangers, insane asylums, south-of-the-border shootouts, mistaken identities, video-store-geekery, and the death of the novel.

MYSTERY GIRL is both an entertaining thriller and a cunning inquiry into art, style, and deception, a dark and loving homage to the era of pulp that summons Proust and Chandler in equal measures.

- See more at: http://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-mystery-girl-by-david-gordon-with-rivka-galchen/#sthash.O1biRPVb.dpuf

Monday, July 8, 2013

Polarama is in Vanity Fair France!

CULTURE | 4 JUILLET 2013

Sortez !

L'agenda de votre week-end

par Claire Stevens

S’esclaffer…
À la lecture de Polarama, de David Gordon. Le roman noir le plus décomplexé de 2013 est un savoureux cocktail de décontraction, de loufoquerie et de pop culture à l’américaine. Un antihéros, abonné à la lose, devient le pantin d’un tueur en séries dont il se retrouve forcé d’écrire les mémoires à quelques heures de l’injection létale… Comme si Woody Allen, un jour de grosse fatigue, avait décidé de jouer aux cadavres exquis avec Andy Warhol, James Ellroy, les héros de Twilight et l’immense Shane Stevens, auteur d’Au-delà du Mal.

Polarama, de David Gordon (Éditions Actes Sud / Actes noirs).

http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/art/diaporama/agenda-culturel-week-end-6-et-7-juillet-2013/126#agenda-culturel-week-end-6-et-7-juillet-2013-6

Thank you Causeur for the wonderful review!

L'écrivain, le tueur et la lolita

Polarama, premier roman de David Gordon, un polar westlakien

Publié le 07 juillet 2013 à 9:27 dans Culture

Mots-clés : David Gordon , Polarama

http://www.causeur.fr/polarama-david-gordon,23341

"Polarama," the French edition of The Serialist, is "westlakien..." Yes, that means what you think. And yes I have been smiling all day. High praise indeed.

"Reading David Gordon is pure pleasure. He's one of the smartest, most stylish writers I've ever come across, a gifted storyteller whose work perfectly combines an incredibly sharp with moments of real transcendent beauty." – KAREN THOMPSON WALKER, author of The Age of Miracles

"MYSTERY GIRL is funnier, sadder, and smarter than seems mathematically possible: Dashiell Hammett divided by Don DeLillo, to the power of Dostoevsky – yet still pure David Gordon." RIVKA GALCHEN, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he is an unemployed used bookstore clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he becomes Assistant Detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or just a morbidly obese madman. It’s a simple tail job, tracking a beautiful and mysterious lady around LA, but Sam soon finds himself helplessly falling for his quarry, and hopelessly entangled in a murder case, involving Satanists, succubi, underground filmmakers, Hollywood bigshots, Mexican shootouts, video-store geekery and sexy dopplegangers from beyond the grave, as well as the risks of hardcore reading and the mournful death of the novel…or maybe just the decline of Western Civilization.

Mystery Girl is a thriller about the dangers of marriage, and a detective story about the unsolvable mysteries of love, art and other people.

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