My review of THE PETS, by Bragi Olafsson (former bassist for the Sugarcubes) is in THE BELIEVER this month:

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200902/?read=review_olafsson

Support Iceland!

Best,
Lara

http://www.smithmag.net/sixword-love/ Please. Check. This. Out. Thank. You.

Check out my review of Hannah Tinti's THE GOOD THIEF:

http://brooklynrail.org/2008/09/books/prose-roundup-sep-08

-LT

Pat Barker's LIFE CLASS will be published in the U.S. this month. For more on Barker's timely novel (about war and the artist's gaze), see my review in the Believer's 50th issue (Jan. 08), now online and soon in print:

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200801/?read=review_barker


To 2008,
Lara Tupper
Author, A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (a novel)
www.laratupper.com

and I just noticed I'm on her fan site (called the Voice, not to be confused with the Village Voice, which would also be nice.) This woman has lungs of steel:

http://www.lindaeder.com/voice_summer-fall07/CD_Signing.htm

(I'm wearing a Pindeldyboz shirt to prove that I'm hip and literary in addition to being a cabaret fan.)

My very first mention in the NY Times:

"Mr.[Joey] Reynolds is not only one of the last of the city's old-style talk-show hosts, he may also be the only one who presides over a traditional live talk and variety program on New York radio. The audience is so small, he can say virtually anything he wants to, as long as he doesn't run afoul of the Federal Communications Commission...He recently shouted at the novelist Lara Tupper, 'Take off your shirt!'"
--

It's true, I'm afraid. I said something clever like, "Did you really just say that?" And then my Nana called my cell to ask the same thing.

Context is key. I was wearing one of my favorite t-shirts (white with silver lettering, $29.99 from the Barry Manilow Gift Shop in the Las Vegas Hilton). It says, BARRY FANILOW. As a Vegas veteran himself, I think Joey wanted his studio to be Barry-free.


But thanks for the mention, David Evanier. And thanks, Mr. Reynolds, for the Fanilow Gone Wild moment. (As my Nana was happy to hear, I did not comply.)

--LT


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/nyregion/thecity/05zeli.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin

"Singing around world leads to book"

Lara Tupper will talk about her experiences and her novel during a visit home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.



Here's the link! (Please note: The reading dates listed in the article are not all accurate. See my posting at the bottom for the correct dates.)

Hello fellow Fanilows,

I'll be on the Joey Reynolds Show LIVE this Tuesday night/Wednesday morning if you're able to tune in from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM EST (May 23)!

Here's the link for the radio station, WOR New York 710:

http://www.wor710.com/pages/46370.php

(Click on the blue "Listen Live" icon on the left.)

And please call in with questions if I'm flailing: 1-800-321-0710 !

Best,
Lara

Hey DC,

I'll be at Olsson's Books in Dupont Circle tomorrow. Please come by and request Barry Manilow songs. You can also buy books if you like:

READING/BOOK SIGNING: Wednesday, May 16, 2007, WASHINGTON DC - Olsson's Books-Dupont Circle, 1307 19th St., NW (one block south of Dupont Circle), 7:00 PM

I'll be reading from my newish novel A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS (Harcourt). Hope to see you!

Lara

Lara Tupper
Barry fan since 1978
www.laratupper.com