News & Events
NEW: At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice
At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is “Brilliant, timely and compelling”- People magazine
The audiobook for At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf is now available from Tantor Media!
Some recent interviews and podcasts:
Electric Literature, Interview, “A Jewish Girl’s Slow Transformation into an Anti-Semite in WWII France”
Public Libraries Online, Interview, “On Finding the Emotional Logic Beneath Her Characters”
American Voices with Bill Bradley, Sirius XM Radio, “My Favorite Sound”
Chatting with Betsy, Interview
WWDB Radio, The Brian and Lee Show, Interview
Jewish Community Center of Victoria, Interview
Bookstore Events:
5/27/2023 - Paris, The Red Wheelbarrow bookstore
3/22/2023 - International House, University of Chicago, 6 pm
3/16/2023 - Flagstaff, Brightside Books, In Conversation with Nicole Walker, 6 pm
3/9/2023 - Boston Reading, Brookline Booksmith, 7 pm
3/3 & 3/4/2023 - Tucson Book Festival
3/2/2023 - Phoenix Reading, Changing Hands bookstore, In Conversation with Devoney Looser, 6 pm
2/25/2023 - San Francisco Reading, Book Passage, the Ferry Building, 3 pm CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
2/24/2023 - Pasadena Reading, Vroman’s, 7 pm CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
2/22/2023 - Washington DC Reading - Politics and Prose, In Conversation with Susan Coll, 7 pm
Updates:
9/2023 - Residency at Yaddo
6/2023 - Residency at the Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland
2/2023 - A playlist for At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf, essay, Largehearted Boy
2/2023 - “On Louis Malle and Childhood Under and Oppressive Regime,” essay, CrimeReads
2/2023 - “Pearl,” story, Air/Light
11/2022 - L’Ancienne Auberge Writer’s Retreat, Puycelsi, France
2022 - Cill Rialaig Artist’s Retreat, Ballinskellings, Ireland
2021 - “Do You Like Your Shadow From Moonlite?,” story, BOMB
2021 - “Rapini,” story, Air/Light
7/16/2020 - “Ball,” featured story, “Read Great Literature” with David L. Ulin, Inside the Story
2/13/2020 - “How to Write an Ending that is Surprising Yet Inevitable,” feature on Ball in Electric Literature
1/2020 - Winner, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose
12/2018 - Hawthornden Residency/Fellowship in Scotland
12/11/2018 - “What Nancy Knew,” O, The Oprah Magazine
7/16/2018 - Interview in The Southeast Review
6/3/2018 - "The Meat Bee" is performed at Word Theatre, The Federal Bar, Los Angeles
3/12/2018 - Q&A at Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead screening, UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series, Los Angeles Hammer Museum
2/23/2018 - "Maps for Storytellers, "The Art of Dialogue," "Desert Nights, Rising Stars" conference, Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
2/6/2018 - "A Map for Needy People," The Writer's Regimen, The Southeast Review
2018 - “Ball,” Nine Stories About Competition, Electric Literature, ebook
Winter 2007 - “A Heart, Beating” excerpt from The List, The Kenyon Review
2017 - "For Eloise," a tribute to Eloise Klein Healy, Lunch Ticket
12/18/2016 - Commencement Speaker, Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing program
9/9/2016 - The Huffington Post lists BALL on "Your Ultimate Feminist Back-to-School Reading List"
6/2016 - "Literary Lingo: A Lexicon," lecture, University of California Riverside, Palm Desert, MFA in Creative Writing
2/2/2016 - Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love and Die at the Movies, wins the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Best Creative Nonfiction
1/27/2016 - Reading with Robert Olen Butler at SOMOS, Taos
1/26/2016 - BALL selected by O, The Oprah Magazine, in "16 Books to Start 2016 Right!"
1/21/2016 - Reading with Matt Bell at Changing Hands, Tempe
1/19/2016 - "If My Book, BALL Were..." on MonkeyBicycle
1/6/2016 - "Wild Women" - interview in The Los Angeles Review of Books
1/2016 - BALL is one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now!" in the January O. The Oprah Magazine
12/14/2015 - BALL is one of Electric Literature's "Best Short Story Collections of 2015"
11/15/2015 - Reading at Skylight Books, Los Angeles
11/11/2015 - "Tara Ison Knows How to Make You Squirm For a Purpose": BALL reviewed in Las Vegas Weekly
11/11/2015 - "Boundaries of Choice": Slant Magazine reviews BALL
11/10/2015 - BALL selected by Publishers Weekly as "Review of the Day"
11/9/2015 - BALL selected by HelloGiggles as "One of the New Books You Need to Read This November!"
11/9/2015 - BALL selected for Publishers Weekly Picks: Books of the Week
11/05/2015 - BALL featured in "6 Books You Need to Read This November" in Los Angeles Magazine
11/3/2015 - "Mental and Emotional Pretzel-Twisting: an Interview with Tara Ison," Electric Literature
11/2016 - "with her expert writing and willingness to push boundaries, the grotesqueness and horrors are bearable, even beautiful" - BALL reviewed in Marie-Claire
10/31/2015 - "Finding The Story, Finding The Form" panel with Peter Turchi and Michael Martone, NonfictioNow Conference, Flagstaff
10/28/2015 - "Ball," the story, is featured in Electric Literature as "Recommended Reading," recommended by Rick Moody
10/23/2015 - "How We Learn To Live, Love, and Die at the Movies": reading and discussion, Mod Phoenix, 7 pm
10/2015 - “Loverboy,” O, The Oprah Magazine
9/25/2015 - "How Not To Lose Your Virginity": presenting Amy Heckerling's Fast Times at Ridgemont High at the Downtown Independent Theater, Los Angeles
9/24/2015 - “How Not To Lose Your Virginity: Amy Heckerling’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” Indiewire
9/7/2015 - Starred review of Ball in Publishers Weekly
8/9/2015 - Ball reviewed in Kirkus: "Elegant, creepy short stories with a horror film sensibility.... Freaky, nasty, highly original and unforgettable"
6/30/2015 - Northwestern University Summer Writers' Conference, Keynote and "The Art of Dialogue"
6/14/2015 - Reading at The Roar Shack, LA
6/13/2015 - Reading at Dirty Laundry Lit, LA
5/13/2015 - Interview with Christi Craig
4/17/2015—4/19/2015 - Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Panel: "Frame by Frame"
3/14/2015—3/15/2015 - Tucson Festival of Books! Panels: "Elasticity Can Give Nonfiction Bounce," and "Movies and Now Books"
3/9/2015 - Reading at the Narrow Chimney Reading Series, Flagstaff, AZ
2/26/2015 - Reading with Pete Turchi at Peregrine Book Company, Prescott, AZ
2/24/2015 - Reading with Pete Turchi at Changing Hands, Tempe, AZ
2/19/2015 - Interview with Fourth and Sycamore
2/10/2015 - Interview with Book Circle Online
2/7/2015 - Pub party for REELING THOUGH LIFE at Skylight Books, LA, 5pm
2/28/2015 - Interview with Writers on Writing, KUCI-FM
1/31/2015 - Interview for Authorlink
1/30/2015 - Reeling Through Life named Editor's Choice in The Chicago Tribune
1/22/2015 - Reading at Newtonville Books, Newton, MA, 7 pm
1/16/2015 - Reading at Diesel Books, Oakland, CA, 6:30 pm
1/16/2015 - "Books by Tara Ison's Bed" from We Wanted to be Writers
1/15/2015 - Reading at Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco, CA, 7 pm
1/14/2015 - Interview with The Black Maria
1/14/2015 - Reading at Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA, 7 pm
1/13/2015 - Interview with Hallie Ephron for Jungle Red Writers.
1/11/2015 - Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies is one of February 2015 O Magazine's "Ten Titles to Pick up Now!"
1/2015 - Excerpt from “How to be a Writer: The Beach House, the Bathrobe, and Saving the World,” We Wanted to be Writers
Winter 2013 - “Andorra,” PMS: poemmemoirstory
9/16/2013 - Reading at Changing Hands bookstore, Tempe, AZ - 7 pm
8/2/2013 - Reading at Women & Children First bookstore, Chicago - 7 pm
7/14/2013 - Short Fiction Series at the Federal Bar, North Hollywood, CA - "Ball: A Night of Short Fiction by Tara Ison" - 7 pm
6/27/2013 - Reading at Books, Inc., Berkeley
6/1/2013—6/15/2013 - Goodreads Author Q&A and Book Giveaway for Rockaway
5/30/2013 - Book signing for Rockaway, at Book Expo America 2013, 3-4 pm
5/27/2013 - Reading at KGB Bar in New York City, 7 pm
4/21/2013 - Los Angeles Times Festival of Books - Panelist: "Novel Narrators" - 12 noon
3/9/2013 - Panelist: "Taking Back The Creative Capstone," AWP 2013, Boston, MA
2/1/2013 - Reading at Literary Southwest, Yavapi College, Prescott, AZ - 7:30
Spring 2012 - “Fish,” Santa Monica Review
2012 - “The First Time I Heard Kate Bush…” The First Time I Heard… eBook anthology
Summer/Fall 2011 - “The Biggest Cross in the Western Hemisphere,” Black Clock #14
Winter 2007 - “List Item #10: The Motel Room,” Tin House Vol. 8, No. 2
Fall 2007 - “Wig,” Getting Even; Women’s Tales of Revenge, Serpent’s Tail Press
Fall 2007 - “Cymbeline: A Man Behaving Badly and the Woman Who Loves Him,” Lincoln Center Theatre Review
Fall 2007 - “Apology,” Black Clock
4/4/2007 - “Confessions of a Former Screenwriter,” Soapbox, Publishers Weekly
3/2/2007 - “Best Books…of Lists” in The Week Magazine
3/2007 - “La Vie en Rose: Pretty in Pink,” Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Simon & Schuster
10/2006 - “Are You Somebody?” excerpt, The Week Magazine