“Lori Ostlund’s wonderful novel After the Parade should come with a set of instructions: Be perfectly still. Listen carefully. Peer beneath every placid surface. Be alive to the possibility of wonder.” —Richard Russo, author of the Pulitzer-winning novel Empire Falls
“Ostlund’s stories are so freakishly focused and darkly atmospheric that you may find yourself especially noticing your fellow human animals’ oddities in the days after you read them, then stepping back for perspective.” –Minnesota Star Tribune
Finalist for Simpson Family Literary Prize
I was one of 4 writers named as a finalist for the $50,000 prize, awarded to a writer in mid-career. “The Simpson Family Literary Project administers the prize with the collaboration of the Lafayette Library
I Interviewed Anne Raeff (my wife) for The Rumpus
I loved doing this interview with Anne Raeff, my wife and first reader, for The Rumpus on the eve of the release of her Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection, The Jungle Around Us (released October 1,
German Edition of AFTER THE PARADE released
With a new cover and title (Life Is a Peculiar Place), After the Parade is officially out in German!
Star Tribune Review of AFTER THE PARADE
In August, I read in my home state of Minnesota, where half of my novel is set, for the first time. I was thrilled with the Star Tribune review of After the Parade that preceded