Glenn Schaeffer
Smiley, Us, SF: Whoa!
So much to celebrate this month, not least of which is tomorrow’s appearance by Jane Smiley as she joins us at Book Passage in San Francisco to read from We Wanted to Be Writers. The lit superstar was extremely generous with her time through countless email interviews and phone followups for her extensive contributions [...]
Life and Lit in the Neon
For fans of alliteration—and who isn’t?—we offer a title that once would have been an oxymoron, but no more: ”Literary Las Vegas.” This Las Vegas Review-Journal article spotlights “Eric Olsen, Glenn Schaeffer and more,” so of course we think it’s great, even though the title doesn’t take full advantage of its potential. But LV has a blossoming lit [...]
KNPR Interviews Eric and Glenn
As a lead-in to the upcoming literary salon in Las Vegas focusing on We Wanted to Be Writers, Nevada Public Radio interviewed Eric and Glenn about their own literary beginnings, how the book came about, how the cast of characters was selected, and much more. Listen to the November 16, 2011 broadcast here ———>>> [...]
A Review Worth Waiting For
Once in every great while a reviewer comes along whose insights are so astute, whose admiration so obviously sincere it’s almost embarrassing to share their parsing of your book . . . NOT! Diane Prokop is a book blogger whose careful and sensitive readings we have long admired and, frankly, lusted after. We followed her [...]
How Our Book Began
Cigars Before Baby Get a writer started talking about the inception of a story—the birth of his baby—and it’s hard to shut him up. Set the prenatal tale in Sin City itself, and embellishment knows no bounds. Here’s Eric’s rollicking romp through a cloud of cigar smoke on a Las Vegas balcony, written for Vegas [...]
Honolulu Weekly Review
We Wanted to Be Writers has sailed the ocean blue and put into port on the Big Island of Hawaii, where a reviewer at Honolulu Weekly, acknowledging the “scoopful of Island-based writers” who are Iowa Writers’ Workshop grads, included us in their annual Winter Books issue. After citing myriad anecdotes from the book, the reviewer says, [...]
Michelle Huneven Video
Anyone who’s been to a reading at Book Soup in West Hollywood knows what a terrific indie bookstore it is and what a tiny space is allotted for readings. So too, such a person will understand how tiny Michelle would appear to be framed between columnar Glenn and Eric. While drawing an audience whose numbers [...]
Examiner.com Review
There’s an aspiring young SoCal novelist who thinks We Wanted to Be Writers is swell. Monique Muro says in her review, “Perhaps the most gratifying thing about thumbing through the trajectory of how [the writers interviewed in the book] succeeded is how much aspiring writers can glean from their experiences.” Nice to connect with our target [...]
Review by 3 Guys 1 Book
Good reviews will never get old. This one by Jason Rice of Three Guys One Book has the added advantage of being frenetic, sexy, and profane. Bottom line? He says We Wanted to Be Writers is a “great book.”
Iowa Public Radio Interview
We’re delighted to share a comprehensive interview with Eric, Glenn and Gordy Mennenga about We Wanted to Be Writers conducted by Charity Nebbe of Iowa Public Radio. It aired 10/4/2011.
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