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Events

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7 pm

Barnes & Noble, Livingston, NJ, 973-758-1310 - Directions

Friday, May 7, 2010, 7 pm

Water Street Books, Exeter, NH, 603-778-9731 - Directions

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7 pm

Newtonville Books, Newton, MA, 617.244.6619 - Directions

Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 7 pm

The Odyssey Bookshop, S. Hadley, MA, 413.534.7307 - Directions

Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7 pm

Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, MA, 413.586.4235 - Directions

Friday, April 9, 2010, 2 pm

AWP Conference, Denver, CO,

 

News

"Frederick Reiken's new novel...reminds us how seemingly unrelated lives can all come together in the net of a master storyteller."

- Scott Simon, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition

 Listen to the interview with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition (May 8, 2010)

Indie Next List - Day for Night is an Indie Booksellers "Indie Next List" selection for May 2010

Boston Globe - Day for Night is the Boston Globe's "Shelf Life Pick of the Week"

The WETA Book Studio - Day for Night cracks the top ten on The Book Studio's Friday Reads list
 

Praise for Day for Night

“Brilliant plotting, haunting characters, and an elegiac tone distinguish this dazzling novel…Contemporary fiction at its best – accessible, breathtaking, and heartbreaking.”

- Kirkus (starred review)

"It’s an entrancing and profoundly complicated tale Reiken tells as he slowly reveals the submerged connections among his intriguing characters while sustaining psychological sophistication, suspense, shrewd humor, and many-tiered compassion. Reiken’s novel of miraculous survival and discovery embraces the earth’s splendor, humankind’s capacity for good and evil, and the fact that we are all linked and that much is concealed within our oceanic psyches."

- Booklist (starred review)

Abby Holcomb interviews Frederick Reiken about Day for Night on the Buzzard Picnic website.

Breaking my Rule About Waiting Until the Book Comes Out Before Writing About It: a Note to Booksellers about Rick Reiken's Day for Night – from the blog of Daniel Goldin, owner of Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)read more...

Day For Night does what really good books so often do by forcing us to see the familiar world in new ways that reveal its wonder. It's a nifty trick that not every writer can pull off. Frederick Reiken can and does.

- Richard Russo
Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls

Breaking my Rule About Waiting Until the Book Comes Out Before Writing About It: a Note to Booksellers about Rick Reiken's Day for Night – from the blog of Daniel Goldin, owner of Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI) – read more...

Recently listed as one of “10 rising literary stars of 2010.”

- The London Telegraph

Day for Night is beautiful, original, brilliant and swift. A novel that seems to be about everything, everywhere, yet wears its ambitions lightly and keeps hold of a strong, mysterious emotional core. I admired every page of it and can't wait to read it again.”

- Kevin Canty
author of Where the Money Went

“From the dazzling opening chapter of Day For Night, Frederick Reiken makes clear that the stakes for his characters, and for his readers, are nothing less than everything. Here is a world, our world, in which no one gets to escape the net of history and no one, finally, gets to deny their human connections. I held my breath while I watched Reiken assemble his own extraordinary minyan.”

Margot Livesey
author of
The House on Fortune Street

 

 

 

Books by Frederick Reiken

Day for Night

The Lost Legends of New Jersey

The Odd Sea

 

 

Day for Night ·  The Lost Legends of New Jersey ·  The Odd Sea

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