The jacket for The Ghost Variations, lovingly designed by Kelly Blair, was featured in Lithub’s “Best Book Covers of March” roundup.

Pantheon has added a permanent Ghost Roulette feature to their Instagram grid. Simply click on the image to set the 100 ghost icons from The Ghost Variations in motion, and then click again to answer that pressing question: “Which Ghost Are You?”

Philip Martin is a columnist and reviewer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, my home state newspaper. I’ve been reading and admiring his work since I was seventeen. Here he writes about The Ghost Variations.

Rich Fisher at Public Radio Tulsa and I had a half-hour conversation about The Ghost Variations. You can listen to it here.

I was asked to contribute an essay to a forthcoming volume of appreciations of Marilynne Robinson, my teacher and eventual colleague at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Literary Hub published my contribution here.

Ailsa Chang, of NPR’s All Things Considered, graciously agreed to speak with me about The Ghost Variations. You can listen to (or read) our exchange here.

This is my virtual events calendar for The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. I’ll be posting the individual entries, along with registration links, on my events page.

Pantheon is featuring The Ghost Variations on its Instagram page for the next month.

Karen Russell and I had a conversation about The Ghost Variations for the Porter House Review.

A long list by Emily Hughes of the 2021 horror (or horror-adjacent) books she’s excited to read, including The Ghost Variations.

The Oxford American has reposted my appreciation of Elton and Betty White, “Bouncing Back Like Basketballs,” from their 2008 Music Issue.

A link to a conversation about the creative process with Heather Rose of Radio Free Roanoke.

Read four stories from The Ghost Variations at BOMB Magazine.

A reading and interview about The Ghost Variations.

The Ghost Variations will be out six months from today.
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Interviews, readings, and sundry.