Nina Siegal

Amsterdam’s American Book Center is celebrating the fact that AMSTERDAM has been named 2008 World Book Capital.

To inaugurate the year of book-related events, on April 23, authors will read all over the city of Amsterdam from 7.00 in the morning till 19.00 to celebrate World Book Day and the opening AWBC year. I’m going to be reading in the afternoon at 15.00, on the second floor of the American Book Center, and I’m going to be followed by the wonderful Julie Phillips, whose first book was the winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2007, and she will be followed by Pete Jordan, author of the funny memoir, Dishwasher, and a frequent guest on Late Night With David Letterman. So, come join us to celebrate the fact that we live in a literary city! Who-hoo! Hope to see you there.

To recap, here’s the schedule:

April 23, 2008

American Book Center, Amsterdam, right in the Spui
15-15.30 Nina Siegal
15.30-16 Julie Philips
16-16.30 Pete Jordan

I’m so pleased to announce that Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of WHAT SHE SAW… and WHY SHE WENT HOME… will be joining me for my last NYC reading on Wednesday night, March 19, in Manhattan. Please see the info below. Lucinda’s working on a third novel, and she’s going to be giving us a little taste…

JOIN US!

Nina Siegal and Lucinda Rosenfeld
Hosted by Emilie Stewart

Wednesday, March 19, 8:00 p.m.
Three of Cups, New York
83 First Avenue, at 5th Street
In the downstairs space
http://www.threeofcupsnyc.com/

My wonderful aunt and uncle, Marian and Jack Krauskopf, hosted a really lovely book event for me on the Upper West Side last night, inviting all the members of Marian’s book group and a lot of other friends and associates, to hear me read from A LITTLE TROUBLE… It was a beautiful party. Here I’m signing books.

I was thrilled to read from A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE FACTS at KGB last night, an amazingly gezellig venue in Manhattan’s East Village. I’ve been going there for years to attend readings of famous writers and a few friends, but I never heard the story about why it was called KGB. Last night, I met the owner, Denis. I asked him about the genesis of the name and he said he’d wanted to give it some kind of name to honor the fact that it was once the city’s Ukrainian Club. Downstairs, there was a gallery named Kraine’s Gallery, and so it came to be called Kraine’s Gallery Bar… Thus, KGB.

It’s been a fun week of the brief NYC tour so far. I started off in a small homegrown bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, called WORD. And here’s me signing my first American books.

I had my first public reading of A LITTLE TROUBLE… in Amsterdam on February 29, three days after the book hit shelves, at a wonderful venue called the ABC Treehouse, which is connected to the American Book Center in the Spui. They were selling copies of the book and put a nice display in the window. This is a photo of me and my terrific editor, Peggy Hageman, who made the trip to Amsterdam to see the reading.

March 8, 2008

ALL READING DETAILS:

Wednesday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.
WORD Bookstore
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
126 Franklin Street
www.wordbrooklyn.com

TO BE FOLLOWED by celebratory drinks at The Pencil Factory, (142 Franklin in Greenpoint, Brooklyn).

Sunday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
KGB Bar, New York
85 East 4th Street
www.kgbbar.com

Wednesday, March 19, 8:00 p.m.
Three of Cups, New York
83 First Avenue, at 5th Street
In the downstairs space
http://www.threeofcupsnyc.com/