Providence Reading with Matthew Derby!


See Matthew Derby the author of "Super Flat Times" and the influential and helmeted inventor of meat-towers in "flesh" and "spirit" at Providence's best bookstore.


Andrew Zornoza & Matthew Derby
reading from their fictions Saturday Nov. 13, 6pm

717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903 • 401.432.6222 • adabooks at ada-books dot com








Reading Sept 19th in NYC



Stories and Songs: Danny Lanzetta and Friends


This Week with Andrew Zornoza and Bryan Dunn and Matt Singer

Every Sunday in September

Googies Lounge

154 Ludlow Street (above The Living Room)

8 PM

Free

J, F to Delancey



Danny Lanzetta is an exciting new spoken word artist and novelist. His dynamic words span an array of subjects, from his biting indictment of Bill O'Reilly to the forlorn and melancholy moments of everyday life. Lanzetta’s spoken rhythm record, The Story of a Minute in America, is a dizzying combination of music and word
s. And coming soon, Lanzetta's second novel: Gadfly. In a previous life, Lanzetta starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, Les Miserables, and in off-Broadway’s critically acclaimed Falsettoland. He also appeared for two years on the CBS television series Brooklyn Bridge as Alan Silver. Among the distinguished people he has worked with include Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, Marion Ross, John Spencer, Mickey Rourke, Mercedes Ruehl and Mimi Rogers. Lanzetta has been writing seriously for over fifteen years, both poetry and prose, spurred on by his adolescent disillusionment with the acting business and a tiny high school creative writing class that co-starred a former chess champion and a classically trained singer. His debut novel, Drunken Angel, released by independently in 2002, is an American love story about those classical, but never tired themes of heartbreak and hope. Lanzetta also writes many of the lyrics for Chris Cubeta’ of Chris Cubeta and The Liars Club. He is a a college professor and is unquestionably the world’s most devout New York Knickerbockers fan.

Upcoming Reading in Philadelphia, July 17th: 6PM!




Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6pm - NPP Presents: A Celebration of Tarpaulin Sky Press!! Featuring Andrew Zornoza, Gordon Massman, Jake Levine, & Kim Gek Lin Short. Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Samson Street, Philadelphia.

Author appearance in Denver at the AWP conference


Genres & Generations – April 8th, 10:30PM

@Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) comes to town this week, bringing with it a variety of writers, from international bestsellers to amateur poets working on their first collections. Six local presses – Fast Forward Press, Monkey Puzzle Press, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Fact-Simile, Zero Ducats, and Bombay Gin – are using the opportunity to put together a unique literary event including some of the area’s most daring writers and poets at Dazzle on Thursday, April 8th.


Powell's and Rain Taxi



"Where I Stay" is featured over at the great Powell's Books (the world's largest independent bookstore) here in their 'Review of the Day' column. The review is reprinted from critic John Madera article in the latest issue of RainTaxi Review of Books. A snippet of that: " . . .superfluous exposition is replaced by evocative gestures, bland dialogue surrenders to resonant internal monologue. Consider Where I Stay a road map that carefully marks its scorched landscapes and anonymous small towns while also pointing out the desultory crew of squatters, border guards, prostitutes, drug dealers -- transitory figures all -- who live hardscrabble lives within them. As such, Zornoza is as much a novelist as he is a cartographer of loneliness, doubt, and fear. . . ."

The author on Cat Power, The Frogs, Elliott Smith and more. . . .









Andrew Zornoza talks about the music behind "Where I Stay" at Largehearted Boy. . . .

Parson's Book Fair; "Where I Stay" Booksigning




Parsons-wide Book Fair

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th Street, on Wednesday
March 3rd from 12-7 PM.
Reception at 5 PM.


The first Parsons-wide book fair will present recently-published books written, edited, or featuring work by more than 40 full-time and part-time faculty members, representing each of Parsons’s five schools. Publications range from illustrated children’s books and limited edition artist’s books to exhibition catalogs, reference books, textbooks and scholarly monographs. This event has been organized by ADHT’s Laura Auricchio with assistance from Jennifer McHugh and in collaboration with Barnes and Noble. Free and open to the public.The first Parsons-wide book fair will be held in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s “Crit Space,” located on the ground floor of 2 West 13th Street, on Wednesday, March 3rd from 12-7 PM. A reception will begin at 5 PM.

The fair will present recently-published books written, edited, or featuring work by more than 40 full-time and part-time faculty members, representing each of Parsons’s five schools. Publications range from illustrated children’s books and limited edition artist’s books to exhibition catalogs, reference books, textbooks and scholarly monographs.

Visitors will also be able to view the “Storyteller” exhibition, in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, throughout the course of the fair.

This event has been organized Laura Auricchio with assistance from Jennifer McHugh and in collaboration with Barnes and Noble. Free and open to the public.

KGB Bar Reading!


Andrew Zornoza & Risa Miller
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th StreetNew York City, NY
February 21, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Risa Miller: a graduate of Goucher College, with an MFA from Emerson College. She is the recipient of the PEN New England Discovery Award. She’s taught fiction writing at the University of Massachusetts and currently on the writing faculty at Emerson College and on the graduate writing faculty at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of the highy aclaimed Welcome to Heavenly Heights. She reads from her latest novel My Before and After Life.

Andrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as, Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. Born in Houston, Texas, he has taught at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and in Parsons Design & Technology MFA program. He is a contributing editor to the arts journal Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.W.). He currently lives in New York City.

Blake Butler and Bookslut



Among January's featured articles, Blake Butler talks to author Andrew Zornoza about how he writes, Chris Farley, and post 9/11 America.

Interview with Molly Gaudry









Interview with author Andrew Zornoza @ Keyhole Magazine, conducted by Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart.


‘First Book’ Authors: Panel Discussion at the Wilton Library

Tuesday January 19, 7-8:30 pm
Three new authors with recently published first books talk and read from their works and discuss their writing process and publication experiences. The three authors are: Emily Arsenault, whose book The Broken Teaglass was accepted for publication while she was working at the Wilton Library; Andrew Zornoza, with Where I Stay and Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds. Talk moderated by local documentary filmmaker and writer Megan Smith-Harris. No charge. Registration recommended.

137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897-3000
(203) 762-3950






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