Bless the crew at Small Beer, who are holding a wee giveaway of Advance Review Copies of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s A Life on Paper. For anyone just tuning in, this book of stories spanning the career of this major French fabulist, selected and translated by yours truly, is due out in May. Only your enthusiasm can make it the event the author merits. Head on over to Small Beer’s Not a Journal blog; it’s easy to enter: “post something interesting about you, France, French things (not Freedom Fries, but anything else goes) in the comments and in a week or so we’ll randomly pick five and reward them with an advance review copy which we hope you the happy winner will dive into and enjoy the way we have and maybe even go on TV and rave about it in a bouncing-on-the-couch-aliens-told-me-to-do-it fashion that gets talked about for years after. Ok? Ok!”
Bless the crew at Small Beer, who are holding a wee giveaway of Advance Review Copies of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s A Life on Paper. For anyone just tuning in, this book of stories spanning the career of this major French fabulist, selected and translated by yours truly, is due out in May. Only your enthusiasm can make it the event the author merits. Head on over to Small Beer’s Not a Journal blog; it’s easy to enter:
http://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2010/03/26/a-free-chateaureynaud/
post something interesting about you, France, French things (not Freedom Fries, but anything else goes) in the comments and in a week or so we’ll randomly pick five and reward them with an advance review copy which we hope you the happy winner will dive into and enjoy the way we have and maybe even go on TV and rave about it in a bouncing-on-the-couch-aliens-told-me-to-do-it fashion that gets talked about for years after. Ok? Ok!
Man, I forgot about Freedom Fries. For some reason, I remember finding that incredibly funny and imagining that they were a product produced by an old-timey, smack-you-over-the-head with patriotism, superhero whose cover identity was an employee of In-N-Out… I obviously have elaborate inside jokes with myself.