Literary Sojourn

 

October 6, 2012. 11am-5pm

 

Off The Beaten Path is Proud to be The Official Bookseller for Literary Sojourn

Literary Sojourn is an annual festival of authors and readers celebrating the power of the book. Each fall, an esteemed slate of authors and 500 book lovers from all over the country gather in Steamboat Springs, Colorado at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort. Together they revel in the written word, fueled by award-winning writers who share the stories and inspiration behind their exceptional books.

Off The Beaten Path carries the works of past and future Literary Sojourn authors year-round, both in store and online.

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This year, we are proud to host Tom Perotta, Susan Orlean, Hillary Jordan, Jonathan Lethem, and Laura Lippman, as well as Master of Ceremonies Andrew Sean Greer!
 
 

2012 Literary Sojourn Master of Ceremonies

Mr. Greer is returning to Steamboat as Master of Ceremonies for Literary Sojourn after winning the PEN O'Henry short story prize among many other prestigious awards. He is the author of the bestselling The Story of Marriage, as well as  The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor Planets, and a collection of short stories, How it Was for Me. He has been published and anthologized nationally and internationally and is currently the writer in residence in Aspen, Colorado.  A list of his other works and various awards is available here.


2012 Literary Sojourn Authors

Tom Perotta

Perotta is a bestselling author who studied writing under Thomas Berger and Tobias Wolff before teaching creative writing at Yale and Harvard. The New York Times Book Review calls him “An American Chekhov whose characters, even at their most ridiculous, seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura."

His most recent book, The Leftovers, is set after the rapture in a small New Jersey suburb as families left behind are muddling through their lives. Stephen King calls it “the best Twilight Zone episode you never saw…"

Also available on his website are a myriad of articles he's written for various magazines and publications. Give these a read before seeing him at Literary Sojourn!

Susan Orlean

Susan is a staff writer for The New Yorker and lecturer, in addition to a self proclaimed gardener and doodler. She hails from Cleveland, Ohio, but has lived all over the US, including Ann Arbor, Michigan, Portland, Oregon, and Boston, and New York. Her books have been bestsellers time and again, her reporterly style making books like Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief fascinating reads, so much so that The Orchid Thief got the green light for a screenplay titled Adaptation, which came out in 2003. Her website also includes many other articles she has written in the past.

Hillary Jordan

When Jordan writes, she undertakes controversial issues and presents them to readers in compelling storylines. Her first book, Mudbound, deals with racism and prejudice in the 1940s Mississippi Delta. The book won the Bellweather Prize in 2006 and was hailed by Stewart O'Nan as a "...page turner - a tangle of history, tragedy and romance powered by guilt, moral indignation, and a near chorus of unstoppable voices."

When She Woke is Jordan's newest book, an amazing blend of The Scarlet Letter and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Dealing with a futuristic society in which criminals have their skin pigmented to reflect the nature of their crimes, Jordan gives a fresh face to a controversial issue. The New York Times called the book "...a feverishly conceived dystopia..." Keep abreast of Hillary's activities and newest books at her website.

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman has been hailed by the Washington Post as "...one of the best novelists around, period." She writes the widely recognized Tess Monaghan series, which is set in her native Baltimore, as well as several stand alone novels, most recently The Girl in the Green Raincoat and The Most Dangerous Thing.

Starting her career as a journalist, she wrote for the Baltimore Sun after graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and churned out seven of her Tess Monaghan novels while still writing daily journalism. Learn more about Laura at her official website.

 

Johnathan Lethem 

Lethem is a nationally acclaimed author, having won the Nebula Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for his writing. His social commentaries cover a broad range of topics from cinema, drugs, cyberculture, and book touring, among many other subjects. He is noted by the LA Times as "...one of our most perceptive cultural critics...his insights buffeted by his descriptive imagination."

Lethem's 19 book canon includes genre-mixed books like Gun, with Occasional Music, Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude, and Chronic City. His most recent book, The Ecstasy of Influence is a collection of nonfiction essays described on his website as "a cornucopia of remarks on art, plagiarism, used bookstores, James Brown, Nathanael West, Norman Mailer, graffiti, Donald Sutherland's buttocks, the difference between White Elephants and Termites, why superhero movies are no genre at all, and the problem of being a novelist in the 21st century." 

 For more books Lethem has collaborated on, click here.

 

2010 Literary Sojourn Authors

  • Wally Lamb
  • Chris Cleave
  • Lori Lansens
  • Frank Delaney
  • Chitra Banerj Divakaruni
  • Dan Chaon

2011 Literary Sojourn Authors

  • Paula McClain
  • Julie Orringer
  • Jennifer Egan
  • Peter Matthiessen
  • Jim Shepard
  • Julia Glass
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