January 17, 2012
I have a short essay about almost drowning in a new book called The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure. There’re lots of smart, alarming, funny, charming, and fascinating pieces in this little book.
November 19, 2011
Here remain some of the least-studied places in the world, with thousands of creatures that exist absolutely nowhere else. There are cecropia trees that swarm with ants if you rap their hollow trunks; cuckoos that throw their voices; strangler figs that latch onto another tree midtrunk, drop aerial roots down to the ground and choke their host tree to death. From Send in the Clouds a new essay in the New York Times T Magazine.
August 19, 2011
Anthony’s latest book was released in softcover on July 5, and includes Anthony’s newest story The Deep tucked into the back of the book. Memory Wall also won The 2010 Story Prize, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the 2011 Ohioana Book Award, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, the NYTimes, the Boston Globe, the SF Chronicle, and many other newspapers. Plus, the title story is being adapted as a feature film.
You can read more about the book here, watch a book trailer here, order it from Powells, Amazon, iTunes, B&N or ask for it at your local independent bookshop.
April 10, 2011
A new short story by Anthony, “The Deep,” won the 2011 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award in England on April 9th. It is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. Readers in the UK interested in reading the story can purchase it here or here. Folks in the US will find it as a bonus story printed in the back of the paperback of Memory Wall, which will be released on July 5th. You can also watch the actor Damian Lewis read part of the story here.
March 5, 2011
At a lovely ceremony in New York City, Anthony got to read with Suzanne Rivecca and Yiyun Li, and at the end of the evening, Memory Wall was awarded the 2010 Story Prize. There’s a video of the event here.
