The Works of Stewart O'Nan

Songs for the Missing is both profound and profoundly beautiful. A haunting meditation on the power those we lose hold over us, its emotional power defies description. Like most of Stewart O'Nan's work, my ultimate response was the highest praise one writer can pay another: envy. I so dearly wish I'd written it. - Dennis Lehane

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Photos: L.A. Festival of the Book

Hartford Courant: “He’ll Stick to Writing Novels”
Hot Metal Bridge: Interview
The Bat Segundo Show #161: Interview

Barnes & Noble Book Club
Last Night at the Lobster
a moderator-led discussion of the novel

Snow Angels
Official site | Production Guide | Reading Group Guide
Wallpaper 1 | Wallpaper 2

The film opens in NYC on March 7 and L.A. on March 14. Some of the other notable dates are:
March 21: Boston | March 28: Hartford
April 4: Pittsburgh | Full List of Release Dates

L.A. Times Book Prize

Last Night at the Lobster
2007 Book Prize Finalist

Poe from Lonely Road Books

"A page-turner that delivers a tale as full of mystery and imagination as Poe's famous stories...Stewart O'Nan's life of Poe would make a great movie: erotic, violent, darkly humorous, suspenseful, and shocking."
- Roger Corman, director of House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, and The Raven

The cover of the "Monsters" chapbook, shipping to Poe preorders from Lonely Road Books

Top Lists: Last Night at the Lobster
Entertainment Weekly: Top 10 Fiction Books of 2007
NPR: The Year’s Best Books: Our Critic’s Picks
The Washington Post: Best Books of 2007
The San Francisco Chronicle: Notable Books of 2007

Last Night at the Lobster

Los Angeles Times: “Last Night at the Lobster makes beautiful sense in the span of O'Nan's writing life: It's a Zen koan of a book...”
The New York Times: “O’Nan’s empathy for his characters is one of his great gifts as a novelist...”
The Seattle Times: “O'Nan paints tender, succinct portraits of Manny, his employees and their intertwined histories...”
The San Francisco Chronicle: “It's a story as common as yesterday's business section, but O'Nan manages to tell it without sentimentality or condescension.”
New York Magazine | USA Today | Toronto Star
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | The Free Lance-Star
Chandler News-Dispatch | Daily Camera
Detroit Free-Press | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (review | video)
Kitsap Sun/Hartford Courant | Palm Beach Post
North County Times | NPR - Fresh Air (audio)
The Globe and Mail (Canada)
“Requiem for a Red Lobster” | VP Book Club