Soho Press presents:
Mike McCormack’s East Coast Tour
March 13-17, 2013
For the US debut of his latest novel, NOTES FROM A COMA, Irish literary author Mike McCormack will be flying in from Galway for an east coast tour in mid-March. While Mike McCormack is a highly decorated literary figure in his native Ireland, Soho Press’s edition of NOTES FROM A COMA marks his first US publication, of which we are extremely proud. He will be visiting New York City, Boston, and Washington DC for readings, discussions, and signings. All tour events are free and open to the public.
New York City
East Village Reading, Discussion & Signing
Wednesday, March 13
7:00pm
Solas
232 E 9th St. (9th St. & 2nd Ave.)
Happy hour prices until 8pm.
Thursday, March 14
7:00pm
George Keeley
485 Amsterdam Ave. (84th & Amsterdam)
Open bar for event attendees until 8pm.
Boston
Harvard Book Store Reading, Q&A & Signing
Friday, March 15
7:00pm
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave. (Mass. Ave. & Plympton St.)
Refreshments will be provided.
Washington, DC
Politics and Prose St. Patrick’s Day Reading
Sunday, March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day!)
1:00pm
Politics and Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Refreshments will be provided.
Book will be 20% off in-store for all of March!
About NOTES FROM A COMA
NOTES FROM A COMA is the story of JJ O’Malley, a brilliant but troubled young man who, shattered by personal tragedy, chooses to enroll in a government program testing deep coma as an option for use within the EU penal system.
The volunteers—all of whom except JJ are criminals—become international celebrities, literally famous for doing nothing. This novel has telling implications of the increasingly pervasive culture of instant celebrity, especially given the proliferation of reality TV. Told from five different, crucial perspectives, NOTES FROM A COMA is an imaginative and atmospheric novel that examines how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.
About the Author
Mike McCormack is the author of Getting It in the Head, a New York Times Notable Book, and Crowe’s Requiem. Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish book of the Year award. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and has received several Irish Arts Council Awards. He lives in Galway, Ireland.
Praise for NOTES FROM A COMA
“The greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended.”
─Irish Times
“McCormack’s language is lovely, lyrical … his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell.”
─Time Out
“A major talent in Irish fiction…..McCormack slyly and brilliantly satirizes, among many other things, our fixations with celebrity and high-priced medical technology.”
─Booklist
Praise for Mike McCormack:
“McCormack’s obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own.”
─GQ
“When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a distinct advantage if he has a sense of discipline and a sense of humor…Mike McCormack has both to spare…Like parables in their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious stories are classics.”
─The New York Times Book Review