Ron Currie, Jr.

"It's important that you understand, from the very outset, here, that everything I'm about to tell you is capital-T True. Or at least that I will not deliberately engage in any lies, of either substance or omission, in talking with you here today".

The truth is that RON CURRIE, JR is both the author and protagonist of this novel. When Currie the character travels to a small Caribbean island to begin a new book, he inadvertantly fakes his own death, which turns out to be the best career move he's ever made.

How much does the truth matter to you? A favorite with book groups, please join us in welcoming Ron to the store, and find out if truth can be fiction at the same time, and which tells the better story with - FLIMSY LITTLE PLASTIC MIRACLES.

Ron is the author of two previous works of fiction, Everything Matters! and God Is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lion's Award. In 2009, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland, ME

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Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr. Thursday, May 23rd, 7:00pm at Longfellow Books In his new novel, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, Ron Currie, Jr. once again proves his talents as an author committed to pushing the boundaries of story telling without sacrificing the story itself. The novel’s main character is an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie’s own life pushing readers to wonder: Why does literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths? What kind of distinction could, or should, be drawn between Currie the author and Currie the character? Or between the book you hold in your hands and the novel embedded in it?

Ron Currie has created a world beyond fact and fiction but also has essential things to impart along the way about heartbreak, reality, grief, deceit, human frailty, and blinding love. Kirkus Reviews calls Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles “a postmodern love story, self-consciously playful in a Vonnegut-ian way ... both moving and hilarious.” Join us to celebrate the third novel from one of our favorite authors, hear Ron read, ask your questions and, of course get your books signed. As always, Longfellow Books evetns are free and open to the public.

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We launch the 2013 Spring Edition with international voices whose acclaimed novels examine our need for truth, and the many ways fiction employes lies to achieve honesty. These unforgettable novels are profoundly original, offering insight and intrigue in equal measure.

Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, Funeral for A Dog, the prize-winning debut by Germany’s Thomas Pletzinger tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Journalist Daniel Mandelkern is assigned to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away. After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated menage a trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present.

The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr. ’s new novel, Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles, has a problem­—or rather, several of them. He’s a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He’s mourning the death of his father, and has been in love with the same woman since grade school, a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all, he’s not even his own man, but rather an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie’s own life. When Currie the character exiles himself to a small Caribbean island to write a new book about the woman he loves, he eventually decides to fake his death, which turns out to be the best career move he’s ever made. But fame and fortune come with a price.

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, an award-winning author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, is deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into th (thebookpile)… (meer)