And In Case You Want Even More Lehane...

...here's an interview with the Boston Phoenix.

In Case You Missed It This Morning...

...here's Dennis Lehane on the Today show.

The Given Day On Today Tomorrow

Catch Dennis Lehane on the Today Show tomorrow morning at 9:45EST!

The New York Times Loves The Given Day!

There's a lovely review of Dennis Lehane's THE GIVEN DAY in The New York Times today!

Janet Maslin praises this "rich, intricate story" and a "wrenchingly suspenseful book," proclaiming that Lehane "has written a majestic, fiery epic that moves him far beyond the confines of the crime genre."

She concludes:

The searing precision with which the book describes this devastation is one of its great strengths. ("Blackened storefronts. Overturned carts and overturned cars, all burnt. Two halves of one skirt in the gutter, wet and covered in soot.") But that quiet horror, reminiscent as it is of the best of "Mystic River," is by no means this book's sole source of strength. "The Given Day" is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive by grounding the present in the lessons of the past. When Mr. Lehane writes of "a man who wore his power like a white suit on a coal black night," he could be writing about a distant time -- or writing about his own.

Read the entire review here and get your copy of the book on Tuesday!

Wall Street Journal Interviews Dennis Lehane

Click here to watch Dennis Lehane speak with Bob Hughes from the Wall Street Journal at BookExpo America.

The Given Day Tops The Indie Next List

THE GIVEN DAY will be the #1 pick on the Indie Next List for October!

IndieBound, the organization of independent booksellers formerly known as Book Sense, puts out the list each month to highlight "great reads from booksellers you trust."

The featured bookseller from Howard's Bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana, recommends Dennis Lehane's novel, saying "Richly textured and filled with historical characters (from Babe Ruth and W.E.B. DuBois to a young and ambitious J. Edgar Hoover), The Given Day is arguably Lehane's best book yet."

We certainly agree!

USA Today On The Given Day

USA Today interviews Dennis Lehane about his inspiration for THE GIVEN DAY, his forthcoming novel set in Boston during the police strike of 1919. To read the article, as well as an excerpt from the novel, click here.

Kathleen McCleary Embarks on Virtual Tour

Just a reminder that Kathleen McCleary kicks off her virtual book tour today over at Hooked on Houses!

See our earlier post for a list of her next stops, or check her out on the TLC Book Tours site.

Nellie Hermann Reading Tonight!

Nellie Hermann will read from her novel at Book Court in Brooklyn tonight at 7pm!

Dennis Lehane Tour Dates

Tuesday, September 23 at 6pm

Brookline Booksmith

279 Harvard Street

Brookline, MA

Wednesday, September 24 at 7pm

Barnes & Noble

1972 Broadway at 66th Street

New York, NY

Thursday, September 25

Check him out on the Today Show!

Thursday, September 25th at 8pm

Book Revue

313 New York Avenue

Huntington, NY

Tuesday, September 30 at 7pm

Borders

612 East Liberty Street

Ann Arbor, MI

Wednesday, October 1 at 7pm

Mystery One Bookshop

2109 North Prospect Avenue

Milwaukee, WI

Thursday, October 2 at 7:30pm

Tattered Cover Book Store

1628 16th Street

Denver, CO

Friday, October 3 at 7pm

Poisoned Pen

4014 North Goldwater Boulevard

Scottsdale, AZ

Monday, October 6 at 7pm

Book Passage

51 Tamal Vista Boulevard

Corte Madera, CA

Tuesday, October 7 at 7pm

Books Inc.

601 Van Ness

San Francisco, CA

Wednesday, October 8 at 7pm

Third Place Books

17171 Bothell Way NE

Lake Forest Park, WA

Friday, October 10 at 12pm

Barnes & Noble

Johns Hopkins

Baltimore, MD

Monday, October 13 at 5pm

Square Books

160 Courthouse Square

Oxford, MS

Tuesday, October 14 at 5pm

Lemuria Books

Suite 202, Banner Hall 4465 I-55N

Jackson, MS

Thursday, October 16 at 7pm

Odyssey Bookshop

9 College Street

South Hadley, MA

Friday, October 17 at 12pm

Downtown Harvard Club of Boston

One Federal Street, 38th floor

Boston, MA

Friday, October 17 at 6pm

Harvard Bookstore

1256 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

Tuesday, October 21 at 7pm

Inkwood Bookshop

216 South Armenia Avenue

Tampa, FL

Thursday, October 23 at 7pm

Barnes & Noble

2418 East Colonial Drive

Orlando, FL

Saturday, October 25

St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading

140 7th Avenue South, Bayboro Harbor

St. Petersburg, FL

Tuesday, October 28 

Harbourfront Reading Series

235 Queens Quay West

Toronto, ON

Saturday, November 15

Miami Book Fair International

300 NE 2nd Avenue

Miami-Dade College

Miami, FL