» ScottAdmin2020

Teaching writing in the Age of Creativity

ScottAdmin2020 — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:40:02 +0000

Tobias Wolff, a rickety printer, and the wisdom of Elmore Leonard...

Zeno’s Conscience with the Stanford Book Salon

ScottAdmin2020 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:30:23 +0000

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/life-long-learning/book-overview I love Zeno’s Conscience (or the Confessions of Zeno, as I first read it) by Italo Svevo. I’m incredibly happy to be discussing it with a revitalized Stanford Book Salon. Alexa Fitzgerald, who is now running the program, is …

Orcas Island Lit Fest, #2

ScottAdmin2020 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:22:01 +0000

I’m extremely happy to announce that return of the Orcas Island Lit Fest in 2019. The date are April 5-7. For those of you who know me, you know that this is a festival I hold close to my heart. …

Orcas Island Lit Fest

ScottAdmin2020 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:10:04 +0000

Help me! I'm starting a literary festival! And it's going to be amazing. We already have an incredible line-up: Jami Attenberg, Adam Johnson, Gil King, Robin Sloan, Kim Fu, Victor Lavalle...to name a few!

Orcas Island Lit Fest

ScottAdmin2020 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 04:00:48 +0000

Seriously, check out the website--Orcas is gorgeous.

The title of this panel is too long to include here but New Orleans!

ScottAdmin2020 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:54:27 +0000

A WRITERS ROUNDTABLE: Fiction in Conversation with Non-Fiction What do Serious Writers Talk about When They are on the Town in New Orleans? What else, Writing!

Arkansas International interviews me about “Animals is Family”

ScottAdmin2020 — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 03:47:36 +0000

This story has always been close to my heart, and I'm so glad to see it in the Arkansas International, a truly fantastic new literary magazine.

Elizabeth Strout

ScottAdmin2020 — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 05:05:14 +0000

I look forward to asking her the difference between a novel and a story!

Nightbird Books in Fayetteville!

ScottAdmin2020 — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:04:51 +0000

So glad to be giving my first reading in my home state (the Natural State). Nightbird Books is a champion bookstore...

Why There Are Words in Sausalito

ScottAdmin2020 — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:02:25 +0000

The topic is "Fever"!