Dan Chaon

Nov 3, 2023 | writingaboutreading.com | Don DeLillo |Dan Chaon |John Darnielle |Lawrence Osborne

BOO! Welcome back to W.A.R. This is Issue 23 and was going to be a Halloween issue but I didn’t finish in time. If you enjoy this newsletter, please forward to your friends. If someone forwarded it to you, make sure you subscribe. I’m in another stretch where I find myself reading four books at once.

Oct 5, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Kelly Link |Yoko Ogawa |Stephen Snyder |Dan Chaon

For a long time, I’ve described my writing as “spooky literary”—the term that seems closest to the pulse of this genre-muddling category I love so much. “Spooky literary” books have ghosts or monsters or werewolves, and they also have complex characters and gorgeous prose. They have moonlit swamps or dark New England woods or shadowy basements, and they ask troubling questions about what it means to be human.

Sep 23, 2023 | writingaboutreading.com | John le Carré |Jeff VanderMeer |Dan Chaon |Daniel Roberts

Good morning and welcome back to this newsletter about reading. It’s finally fall, the best reading season. (But winter, spring, and summer are all great times to read too.) Wherever you read your Writing About Reading today, I hope it involves a hot beverage, a warm top layer, and a view of trees. I just finished Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré, my fourth of his and my favorite so far.

Jun 5, 2023 | nytimes.com | Dan Chaon |Katie Williams

FictionIn the novel “My Murder,” the victim of a serial killer finds that her second chance at existence comes with profound dilemmas. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.

May 17, 2023 | macsbacks.com | Dan Chaon

Mac's will celebrate the paperback release of Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk on May 25 at 7 p.m.Dan will be in conversation with his son Phil Chaon, co-author of Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists and Ecologists. Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship.