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“A Warm Breath” published as Ploughshares Solo
Posted on 14. May, 2013 by Scott.
The kind folks at Ploughshares literary journal have just published my long essay, “A Warm Breath,” in their Ploughshares Solos series, exclusively for Kindle. The essay is about grief, new parenting, and Chekhov, among other things–and a tribute to my friend Rob, gone two years now and terribly missed.
More information here: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/new-ploughshares-solo-a-warm-breath-by-scott-nadelson/
Or purchase it for your Kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/Breath-Kindle-Single-Ploughshares-ebook/dp/B00CPRT962/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1_VGSW
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Interview on Other People with Brad Listi
Posted on 24. Apr, 2013 by Scott.
This week I’m one of the other people talking with the always engaging Brad Listi on his podcast Other People: http://otherpeoplepod.com/archives/1986.
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Self-Interview and Excerpt at The Nervous Breakdown
Posted on 29. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
I was caught talking to myself in public again, recorded here at The Nervous Breakdown: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2013/03/scott-nadelson-the-tnb-self-interview-2/#more-106035.
They also posted an excerpt from The Next SN: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbnonfiction/2013/03/excerpt-from-the-next-scott-nadelson-by-scott-nadelson/#more-105847
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Portland Mercury review
Posted on 29. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
Grateful for all the Portland love. Here’s Alison Hallett in the Mercury: “Nadelson’s new book, his fourth from local press Hawthorne Books, is a thoughtful, bracingly honest collection of stories … It’s unusual to read a memoir built of short stories, but it works—instead of forcing a narrative arc onto his own life, as so many memoir writers do, Nadelson simply places these stories next to one another, allowing their edges to overlap, tugging the reader forward and backward in time. The results are funny, quietly compelling, and unflinchingly frank.”
Read the whole review here: http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/self-construction/Content?oid=8888603.
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Portland Monthly reviews The Next SN
Posted on 26. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
Here are some kind things Corey Fawcett writes about The Next Scott Nadelson in Portland Monthly:
Nadelson’s darkest moments repeatedly coincide with self-discovery and growth, reminding anyone who has been miserable that it’s never all for naught. But the gravity of it all is balanced out by the humor that often goes hand-in-hand with the kind of rawness and self-deprecation Nadelson injects into his work… Above all, the book is a meditation on suffering, and the impossibly complicated process of getting through it. More than once, Nadelson refers to an unbridgeable gulf that exists between people, making love inevitably difficult and his own happiness always out of reach. But by the end of the book, he seems to have found a way to come to terms with this, and lets his readers get a little closer to doing the same.
Read the whole review here: http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/culturephile-portland-arts/articles/review-the-next-scott-nadelson-march-2013
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The Next Scott Nadelson reviewed in The Oregonian
Posted on 25. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
Happy to say that this is one of the most generous reviews a writer could ask for. Big thanks to Scott F. Parker and The Oregonian. Here are some highlights:
“Nadelson is masterful in locating and creating meaning from his personal history … The breakup refrain gives the book cohesion as book, but each of the individual pieces succeeds in its own right. Nadelson is an honest and endearing narrator, willing to make himself fully vulnerable … But ultimately it isn’t what happens to Nadelson that matters as much as what he’s able to do with it: model for the reader the duty of self-understanding. He knows firsthand the power of such models and of literature to connect with and console the reader. During tough times — before, during, and after the breakup — it’s literature that keeps him going … One of the joys of this book is that in showing how literature sustained him Nadelson gives us literature that sustains.”
Read the whole review here: http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2013/03/a_memoir_of_self-understanding.html
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New interview at NW Book Lovers
Posted on 12. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
I was recently interviewed by Sally McPherson, one of the co-owners of the great Portland indie bookstore, Broadway Books, for NW Book Lovers. We had a terrific conversation. Read it here: http://nwbooklovers.org/2013/03/12/identity-and-fear-talking-with-scott-nadelson-about-the-next-scott-nadelson/.
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Read a bonus essay on the Hawthorne Books blog, plus contest to win book
Posted on 12. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
In the final editing process for The Next Scott Nadelson, I had to cut several short pieces from the book. Here’s one of them, at the Hawthorne Books blog: http://hawthornebooks.com/blog/article/scott-nadelson-guest-author-blog-post.
Hawthorne is also giving away a copy of the book, along with a fancy mug, to the winner of this contest: http://hawthornebooks.com/newsroom/article/enter-the-love-will-tear-us-apart-contest. Contest ends March 22.
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Book Brahmin at Shelf Awareness
Posted on 06. Mar, 2013 by Scott.
The folks at Shelf Awareness were kind enough to ask me to share thoughts on favorite books, and I was happy to oblige: http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1941#m19165.
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Win a free copy of The Next Scott Nadelson on Goodreads
Posted on 29. Jan, 2013 by Scott.
Goodreads member? Enter here for a chance to win one of 10 free copies of my forthcoming memoir: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/43415-the-next-scott-nadelson-a-life-in-progress. The raffle is open until Feb. 28.