30 April 2008
My short story “Village 113” is included in the newly-released O. Henry Prize Stories 2008, a collection of 20 remarkable stories from writers as gifted and varied as Michael Faber, William Gass, Edward P. Jones, Alice Munro, and Olaf Olafsson. Full table of contents here.
04 February 2008
…When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and a writer’s, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death… -From a short essay on reading in Southwest Airlines in-flight magazine, Spirit. You can read a PDF of the piece here.
28 January 2008
My story “The Caretaker” is included in the brand new edition of The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970, a sharp and affordable collection of fifty good short stories.
13 December 2007
My third book, a work of nonfiction titled Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World, is in bookshops near you.
It’s about writing, the fanfare surrounding the death of Pope John Paul II, habitualization, the ancient Roman encyclopedist Pliny the Elder, and being a parent of newborn twins in Italy, where you can’t push a stroller twenty feet without someone stopping to tell you how beautiful your baby is. “Doerr has composed a bittersweet and artful meditation on the craft of writing and a celebration of the city and the senses,” says Salon.com. If you’re interested in travel, parenting, Italy, sleep-deprivation, perception, or writing, I hope you’ll give it a look.
Click here to read the first three pages and here for more info about the book.
24 June 2007
It bewilders and disorients; the dark patches swarm with questions. If you peered into just one of its black corners, took an Ultra Deep Field of the Ultra Deep Field, would you see as much all over again? Why the breathtaking photograph known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field should be in every classroom in the world, an essay in the July/August issue of Orion Magazine
Listen to Anthony’s interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition
15 January 2008Doerr’s “Procreate, Generate” – about a couple’s IVF treatment – is a masterpiece of observed detail and intuitive poetic sense, like DeLillo at his best.
09 January 2008Hear Four Seasons read aloud on Wisconsin Public Radio.
21 November 2007Hear Anthony on NPR’s New Horizons in Education
20 October 2007
