Edie Meidav

LOLA,CALIFORNIA now out

Events and Workshops

September 10, 2011: Poet's Walk, Rhinebeck: outdoor reading/​dance/​song related to LOLA. Amii Legendre dances, Brielle Korn sings, Kevin Salem strums.
More info on the Scenic Hudson web site.

September 25, 2011: Book Court, Brooklyn: reading/​dance/​song (Legendre, Korn, Salem).
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Most recent news: Just back from two months in Cuba, with whole family, on a Howard fellowship. Two words: water shortages. More to say, but let that suffice for now. Postings to come on the (see above) newsletter. Now a consulting editor for the worthy Fifth Wednesday Journal and a senior editor at my longtime lodestar, Conjunctions.

California/​New York/​Seattle book tour winding down. Now cracking down on next novel.

Novels by Edie Meidav

a dream of connection
Two old friends find each other while a father awaits his end on Death Row.
Novel
Bumbling westerner goes to 1930s Ceylon to save the natives. Some historical link to Henry Steel Olcott, one of the West's redactors of Buddhism.
A story narrated by an Iraqi vet; an excerpt from forthcoming novel; a fabulistic story in "Betwixt and Between", current issue of Conjunctions; a story written in 20 minutes "Kingdom of the Young"; a story set in upstate New York
Fiction
An exploration of the mind of evil. "He is quite a creation indeed, this aging anti-Quixote with his residual windmills to tilt at." -- Thomas Kenneally, The Washington Post
An epic, intimate novel in which a blundering westerner goes east. "Complex, imaginative."
--Chitra Divakaruni