Upcoming Events

I’ve got a dozen or so radio interviews coming up for Capote in Kansas over the next week, so if you’re in any of these areas, listen in. Listening to me is better than books on tape!

Sunday, Dec. 9, 07 – 6:30 a.m. – Philadelphia WIP-AM “Conversations with Peter Solomon”

Monday, Dec. 10, 07 – 10:15 a.m. – East Prairie, MO – KYMO Morning Show with Reid Howell

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 07 – 8:30 a.m. – Miami – WAXY-AM – Sid Rosenberg Show

Wednesday, Dec. 12, 07 – 9:25 a.m. – Columbia, MO – KFRU-AM – David Lile Show

Wednesday, Dec. 12, 07 – 4:00 p.m. – Myrtle Beach, SC – Jim Morgan/Easy Book Club

Monday, Dec. 17, 07 – 10:00 a.m. – Toledo, OH – WABJ-AM – Tami Frye Morning Show

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 07 – 9:10 a.m. – Detroit – WPHM-AM – Paul Miller Morning Show

Friday, Dec. 21, 07 – 9:45 a.m. – Colorado Springs – KCMN-AM – Tron in the Morning

Friday, Dec. 21, 07 – 11:10 a.m. – Bloomington, IL – WJBC-AM – Ron Ross Show

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Wednesday, Dec. 26, 07 – 12:05 p.m. – Huntington, WV – WRVC-AM – Jean Dean Viewpoint

Thursday, Dec. 27, 07 – 5:44 p.m. – Nashville – WKCT-AM – Drive Time with Roy Brassfield

Sunday, January 6th, 08 – WXXM Radio Wisconsin – Sundays with Stu Levitan

I had a great interview with Stu; hope you all will listen to it. He wrote this about the book: “Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story, is an evocative and provocative fantasia about Truman Capote, Nelle Harper Lee and their lives before and after In Cold Blood. Novelist Kim Powers, author of the moving memoir The History of Swimming, joins me for a conversation about these two childhood chums who went on to lead extraordinary literary lives.”

Tuesday, January 8th, 08 – 3:15 p.m. – Eastern WDWS-AM Champaign, IL Gary O’Brien and Friends

I’m on a panel at the Texas Book Festival, one of the largest in the country. If you happen to be in Austin November 3rd and 4th, swing on by, hear me talk, and buy a book! I’ll throw in an autograph for free. Here’s the distinquished company I’m keeping:

Stretching Exercises: How I Became Someone Else in My Fiction

Date: Sunday, November 4, 2007
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Location: Capitol Extension Room E2.012

We want fiction to compel us to enter the lives of other people, no matter how grounded in realism or minimalist the author’s writing may be. This session features a writer whose protagonist is a ventriloquist’s dummy; another whose protagonist is a teddy bear on the wrong side of the Homeland Security Department; one whose protagonists are adolescent African-Americans in the Civil Rights era, even though the writer is neither African-American nor adolescent; and another who re-imagines what took place in rural Kansas between Truman Capote and Harper Lee when they were researching the story that became In Cold Blood, even though two relatively recent movies have established what happened in Kansas in the public imagination. We’re celebrating the power of the literary imagination at this session, and finding out exactly what it took for these writers to stretch their minds in vibrant and eloquent ways.

Authors: Darryl Wimberley
Wesley Stace
Kim Powers
Clifford Chase