Edie Meidav

3 novels: THE FAR FIELD: A NOVEL OF CEYLON; CRAWL SPACE; LOLA,CALIFORNIA

Events: Antediluvian to Postlapsarian

UPCOMING READINGS:

September 12th: San Francisco, Zyzzyva office on Geary Street, 7:30 pm. Dramatization of "Cuba + Kids - Water", essay about living in Cuba; 4 actors, directed by Mae Ziglin Meidav.

September 15th, Manhattan, Lower East Side, Scratcher bar (21+): with John Reed and Brando Skyhorse reading and also serving linked literary libations.

September 19th, Brooklyn, WORD bookstore : with David Gutowski of Large-hearted Boy blog and musician Kevin Salem and perhaps other musical guests.

CURRENT/​UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

Abe's Penny, Brooklyn-based literary journal distributed via postcards: 4-part piece published in conjunction with photography

"The Buddha of the Vedado", short story about Cuba, in fall issue of Conjunctions

"Cuba+Kids-Water" in upcoming issue of Zyzzyva

Interview with Leela Corman for The Millions

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.
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