Mt. Gretna Writers Series
10 a.m. @ the Hall of Philosophy State Highway 117 & Gettysburg Avenue Mt. Gretna, PA 17064 Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chautauqua
read moreSavannah Reading & Screening
7 p.m. @ The Book Lady Bookstore 6 E. Liberty Street Savannah, GA 31401 (912) 233-3628 A reading followed by a screening of the hilariously cheesy 1972 Charlton Heston film Skyjacked
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7 p.m. @ the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum Theater 441 Freedom Parkway Atlanta, Georgia 30307 (404) 865-7100 Sponsored by the good people at A Cappella Books
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7 p.m. @ Book Soup 8818 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069 (310) 659-3110
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6 p.m. @ WIRED 520 Third Street, Suite 305 San Francisco, CA 94107 Snacks by WIRED, beer by Crown Books on sale from Green Apple
read moreNew York City Reading
7 p.m. @ The Half King 505 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 (212) 462-4300
read moreWashington D.C. Reading
7 p.m. @ Politics & Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW Washington, DC 20008 (202) 364-1919
read moreThe Atlantic
January 19, 2025A brief-but-awesome excerpt from one of my favorite passages in The Skies.
read moreWired Excerpt
January 19, 2025How hijackers commandeered over 130 planes in just five years. Plus a gallery of vintage skyjacking photos.
read moreThe New Republic
January 19, 2025An awesome visual guide to the skyjackings of 1972, the year the epidemic entered its final, most frenzied phase.
read moreThe New York Times
January 19, 2025The Paper of Record shows some love: “It’s such pure pop storytelling that reading it is like hearing the best song of summer squirt out of the radio. Both the author and his subjects are so audacious that they frequently made me laugh out loud.”
read moreVanity Fair‘s “Hot Type” Column
January 19, 2025The classy people want you to read The Skies.
read moreSkyjacker of the Day in Slate
January 19, 2025Slate picks up my Skyjacker of the Day series, starting with overly ambitious extortionist Arthur Gates Barkley.
read moreNew York Magazine‘s To-Do List
January 19, 2025My adopted hometown’s favorite glossy calls The Skies “a terrifically fun summer read.”
read moreThe New York Post‘s “Hot Reads” List
January 19, 2025Exceedingly kind words from Gotham’s favorite tabloid, in its rundown of the summer’s most best books: “A star-crossed, anti-hero love story that will transport you back to the ’70s.”
read moreSKYJACKER OF THE DAY
January 19, 2025Launch of the Skyjacker of the Day Tumblr probject—a hundred days, a hundred skyjackers.
read moreThe first time I jotted down the idea for the book. This was basically all I knew.
The first time I jotted down the idea for the book. This was basically all I knew.
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