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By Eylie Sasajima To celebrate the upcoming release of Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature, on June 6, ASP’s James J. Patterson was interviewed on E. Ethelbert Miller’s WPFW radio show, On the Margin. The conversation included personal reading and writing practices, science fiction, and the origin of ASP itself, along with…
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Saturday, May 13, 2:30 pm Bethesda, MD: Private Salon, “The Creative Leap.” ASP resumes its series of occasional salons with this special event. James J. Patterson reads from his new essay collection, “Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature,” and Katherine Williams reads from her new poetry collection, “Still Life.” Discussion led by…
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Tuesday, June 13, 6:00 pm, Bird in Hand Café and Bookstore, 11 E 33RD Street, Baltimore, MD21218 https://www.birdinhandcafe.com/ James J. Patterson reads from “Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life and Literature,” and Jane Satterfield reads from her latest poetry collection, “The Badass Brontës.” Poet Elizabeth Hazen leads the Q & A, focused on writing…
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Friday, June 16, 7:00 pm, The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda MD 20815 https://www.writer.org/event/patterson-hamburger/ James J. Patterson reads from “Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life and Literature,” and Aaron Hamburger reads from his new novel “Hotel Cuba.” Zachary Powers leads the Q & A. Free and open to the public. There will be…
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With a new edition of Nexus: the International Henry Miller Journal comes a whole new discourse on the oft-ignored American master. James J. Patterson’s unique perspective on Miller appears as “Throwing in the Tao…” an essay concerning the correspondence between writer Lawrence Durrell and his mentor, Henry Miller. An excerpt follows below. Catch it in the new…
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James J Patterson remembers his hero, Robert Bly, from Patterson’s forthcoming book, “Junk Shop Window” from Alan Squire Publishing. It is a late Sunday afternoon in downtown Atlanta. The Conference on Myth, Fantasy, and Imagination, on the last of its four days, is taking a breather between the afternoon lectures and mealtime festivities. The conference…