Kind of late on this one, but February’s Chicago Magazine (with Michelle Obama, aka Mrs. Hope, on the cover) featured this nice little article by Joe Meno. And I’m honored to be grouped with Nami Mun and Frances De Pontes Peebles, two very talented novelists. I’m also not wearing any damn shoes in the photo. So.
reviews
Refreshing Sincerity Sans Shoes
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009Bittersweet Peach
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offers their review, if only to subscribers:
The Slide is the funny, haunting and tense coming-of-age story of Potter Mays…and it is quite a stunner. Sort of like a less loquacious David Foster Wallace, or a less self-conscious Brett Easton Ellis…Beachy is an astute, empathic observer. [He] has filled The Slide with wry observations and moments of great tension.
The Mail, Out of Tune
Monday, February 9th, 2009When the next issue of my my dear old college’s thrice-annual and very pretty magazine arrives, it will feature this article about me, and my book, and how we both relate to dear old Pomona College. No telling where the magazine will arrive. Sometimes my mailperson leaves it peacefully in our building lobby’s obvious OVERSIZE MAIL spot. Other times he/she stuffs it violently into my mail slot, tearing the cover and creating a small pain the the ass but also, I suppose, proving some kind of point.
And I’ve been alerted to yesterday’s Boston Globe calling The Slide “an unusually good, and unusual, coming-of-age story.”
A Song In One’s Honor
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009A long and deep and very kind profile of me appears in this week’s Riverfront Times, featuring quotes from my parents, my old baseball coach, and my favorite rapper along with two references to me crying. So from now on, no more talk of tears. Gotta toughen up my image and shit. If you need me, I’ll be outside in the bitter Chicago winter punching trees or something.
