My first novel ANGELOLOGY will be out next March in the US, published by Viking and will be published in the following countries soon after:

I have a play list of songs (or a concept album) revolving around my new novel ANGELOLOGY up on Paper Cuts, The New York Times Book Review's blog.

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/

As I mention in the post, I have a long list of songs that I've listened to while writing the book (in addition to those on the play list). Here are a few:

1) Oil of Angels, Cocteau Twins
2) Angels and Devils, Echo and the Bunnymen
3) Angeles Elliott Smith
4) Halo, Depeche Mode
5) Heather Angel, Sonic Youth
6) The Black Angel's Death Song, The Velvet Underground
7) Sweet Angel, Jimmy Hendrix
8) Angel Dust, New Order
9) Yes, I'm your Angel, John Lennon/Yoko Ono
10) In Our Angelhood, Cocteau Twins
11)When the Angels Fall, Sting
12) Angel Eyes, Ella Fitzgerald
13) Angelina, Bob Dylan
14) Angelica, Duke Ellington
15) Blue Angel, Anthony and the Johnsons
16) By my Angel, Mazzy Star
17) Low-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel, Whiskeytown

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Trussoni-t.html?_r=1&ref=books

i've been buried under the drafts of my new book, a novel called Angelology,  and have not had the ability to crawl out and post on this blog, but will be back soon. in the meantime, you might want to check out my husband's latest book TURTLE FEET (his name is Nikolai Grozni). Here is his site, for more info!
www.nikolaigrozni.com

Here's the newest--

Now You See Him by Eli Gottleib

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/books/review/Trussoni-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Trussoni+&st=nyt&oref=slogin

cheers! Danielle

Check out my latest review in the NYTBR of Patricia Hampl's latest memoir, The Florist's Daughter:

www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/books/review/Trussoni-t.html?ref=todayspaper

I have an opinion piece in the The New York Times today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/opinion/18trussoni.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Here's the link to my Father's Day NPR interview:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11141310

This article in today's Times points to why telling one's life story is so important, something memoirits have long since discovered (here is just one more instance of art beating science to the punch):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/health/psychology/22narr.html?8dpc=&_r=1&pagewanted=all

It concludes with Joan Didion:
"The idea that whoever appeared onstage would play not me but a character was central to imagining how to make the narrative: I would need to see myself from outside," the writer Joan Didion has said of "The Year of Magical Thinking," her autobiographical play about mourning the death of her husband and her daughter. "I would need to locate the dissonance between the person I thought I was and the person other people saw."

Come listen to Janice Erlbaum (author of GIRLBOMB), Maggie Nelson (author of  THE RED PARTS) and me on WRITERS REVEALED at 7PM EST today.

Here's the link:

http://www.nowlive.com/channel_player_full.asp?id=9636
 

I was recently added to the 6000 List of "intriguing people you want to meet online before you die."
Edited by Cliff Pickover.

Yes!!
Here's the link:
http://sixthousand.blogspot.com/

Check out the review I wrote about a fabulous new book called "Later, at the Bar" by Rebecca Barry in The New York Times Book Review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Trussoni.t.html?ref=review

Word has just come in:
Falling Through the Earth is #11 on the Heartland Independent Bestseller List! A toast to the great good taste of readers in the Heartland!

This list
combines Midwest Booksellers Association (member states include parts of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota,South Dakota, and Wisconsin)  and Great Lakes Booksellers Association(parts of Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, and Indiana).

Bluebeard

I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study;
because he would make love to me
I am sending back the key;
in his eye's darkroom I can see
my X-rayed heart, dissected body :
I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study.

Sylvia Plath

"The World States' Motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY"

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World