The Boston Globe reports:

• (3/19/06) "Everybody knows about Four Stories, everybody raves about Four Stories, and Four Stories is fast becoming the place to be...
• (9/11/06) "[P]eople  get turned away at the door because the room fills to capacity... even before the readings start."
• (10/1/06) "Four Stories is the city's hippest reading series."
• (1/14/07) "[T]he Four Stories reading series [is] one of the hottest gatherings in the city...

The Bostonist blogs:

• (12/2/07) "Four Stories is a unique reading series...[I]t’s more like a party than a stereotypically stuffy literary event, and its fun atmosphere encourages engaged discussion...."

The Japan Times writes:

• (6/22/07) Four Stories is featured on the front page of the Japan Times' national section, which reports, "'Four Stories has helped make Osaka the new Kyoto'....Slater and Four Stories have shown that Osaka's image among some foreign literary critics as a cultural desert is no longer entirely accurate."

Japan's Kansai Scene reports:

• (6/1/07) Four Stories Japan is "re-energizing the reading movement " in Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe.

Tokyo's Being a Broad magazine says:

• (1/1/08) Being a Broad magazine spotlights Four Stories founder Tracy Slater and the literary series, writing, "The expat community is grateful" for Four Stories.

The Latest from our Authors:

• The lovely Suzanne Kamata interviews the luminous Leza Lowitz, both Four Stories Japan authors, for Women on Writing's feature "The Art of Embracing Uncertainty."
   
• Catch Don Lee around the nation, on tour for his new book, Wrack and Ruin:
  
  April 18, Fri., 7 p.m.
  Cody's Books
  2201 Shattuck Avenue
  Berkeley, CA
  
  April 19, Sat., 4 p.m.
  Book Passage
  51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
  Corte Madera, CA
  
  April 22, Tues., 7 p.m.
  The Loft Literary Center
  1011 Washington Avenue S
  Minneapolis, MN
  
  April 25, Fri., 7 p.m.
  Harvard Book Store
  1256 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA
  
  April 28, Mon., 7 p.m.
  Barnes & Noble (Upper West Side)
  82nd & Broadway
  2289 Broadway
  New York, NY
  
  April 30, Wed., 7:30 p.m.
  Barnes & Noble
  Galleria Shopping Center
  3225 W. 69th
  Edina, MN
   
• Check out the trailer for hottie-pants Scott Heim's new book We Disappear!
   
• Check out Four Stories founder Tracy Slater's new essay from Best Women's Travel Writing 2008.
   
• The new book from the very cool Bret Anthony Johnston, Four Stories Boston author, has been released from Random House. It's called Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, and you can buy it right now, right here!
  
  
   
• Four Stories Japan author Leza Lowitz's Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo, an  award-winning collection of fiction, goes into its second printing @ Printed Matter Press.
   
• Boston Herald herald Elizabeth Searle's rock opera, Tonya & Nancy.
   
• Hot mamma Tracy McArdle launches the new column "Getting Some," for MomLogic, the new website for moms by Warner Bros!
   
• Four Stories Japan's Tom Bradley's book Fission Among the Fanatics, has  been named Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine in Paris. Plus, his new book Lemur is now out.
   
• Four Stories Japan reader Jane Joritz-Nakagawa's 2007 poetry book Aquiline is available via Printed Matter Press and Small Press Distribution.  Read a review of Aquiline  by Four Stories alum Suzanne Kamata or of Jane's 2006 poetry book, Skin Museum,  reviewed by Four Stories author Hillel Wright and viewable @ http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/664/books.asp.
• Four Stories Boston author Jamie Cat Callan releases her new Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the 'Write' Side of Your Brain,  perfect for a holiday gift!  Check it out on Amazon.
  
   
• Boston Globe spotlights talents of Four Stories reader Grace Talusan.
   
• Four Stories Boston author John Fulton publishes his new collection of short stories, The Animal Girl, to rave reviews. Check it out here.
  
  
   
• Four Stories Japan author Suzanne Kamata's new novel, Losing Kei–about a young mother who fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child, in an acutely insightful first novel about an inter-cultural marriage gone terribly wrong–is now available on Amazon.  Also check out Suzanne's new web siite!
   
• Check out Four Stories Japan reader Roland Kelts's latest book, JapanAmerica, is getting rave reviews in both hemispheres.  Check out the English edition on Amazon US and the Japanese edition here.
  
  
  
   
• Four Stories Japan goddess Jessica Goodfellow is featured in California Institute of Technology's magazine, Caltech News, for both her writing wizardry and her mathematics acumen:  See the article, "From Psi to Poetry," here.
  
   
• Read essays from Four Stories hotties Tehila Lieberman and Lucy McCauley  in  Lucy's latest anthology, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2007
  
  
   
• Four Stories author Jon Papernick's new novel, Who by Fire, Who by Blood, a thrilling tale of terrorism and religious fanaticism, will be published this September in Canada. Papernick is joined with Waltham-based independent bookstore Back Pages Books to launch the 1001 Book Project, with the goal of selling 1001 copies of the book before publication. He writes, "With your support we hope to affect change in the corporate dominated publishing world where profit margins have virtually eliminated editors ability to take risks on new literary voices. To learn more about the 1001 Book Project please visit http://www.backpagesbooks.com/who_by_fire.htm or check out http://www.jonpapernick.com Your support is very much appreciated."  Go JP!
   
• Four Stories' Hank Phillippi Ryan goes on a national book tour to read from her awesome new book Prime Time, which reviewers are calling  "a perfect combination of mystery and romance." Catch her around Boston, including at Newtonville Books on June 26, 7:30 pm,  or across the country @ these dates.
  
  
  
   
• Contribute Ideas to Boston Globe 's "Coupling" Column! Four Stories alum Alison Lobron, writer for the Boston Globe's "Coupling" column, is looking for both tales & topics about dating & relationships in Boston!  Have any ideas?  If so, email her @ alisonlobron@gmail.com.  Need more info?  Check out her latest column: From Sizzle to Fizzle: Happiness, heartbreak, and the hazards of the summer fling.
   
• The luminous Thalassa Ali will read from her new novel, Companions Of Paradise, a story of love and war in Victorian-era Afghanistan, on April 25th, 7pm, at The Coop, Harvard Square; and May 15th, 7pm, Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St. Brookline. More @ www.thalassaali.com
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• Border Town, Four Stories Japan author Hillel Wright's controversial novel of a Japanese manga heroine's war with Japan's Imperial Household Agency is now available on Amazon.com, direct from the publisher,  or from the distributor.
  
   
• Four Stories author Lawrence Douglas's hilarious book comes out in paperback.  See it online at Amazon!
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Andrew McAleer, co-author of the number-one best seller Mystery Writing in a Nutshell, and professor of Crime Fiction and Espionage at Boston College, will be holding a mystery writing workshop at Grub Street on Saturday, May 5th, 2007 from 9:45 to 11:00 a.m. For more information and to register go to www.grubstreet.org
   
• Don't miss the new book by Pagan Kennedy, paragon of writerly talent, The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution .  See it online at Amazon
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Lise Haines's second novel, Small Acts of Sex & Electricity, was named one of ten "Best Book Picks for 2006" by NPR station KPBS, after being selected in September 2006 as a Book Sense Pick through the Independent Booksellers Association.
  
   
• Four Stories author T.J. Parsell speaks on CSPAN about his groundbreaking work Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison.  Watch it online now!
  
  
  
   
• Four Stories author John Papernick's latest articles on Jewcy and The Jewish Daily Forward  are now out!
   
• Post Road publishes Four Stories founder Tracy Slater's essay "Erasing Gender: A Woman's Journey Through Men's Lockup."
   
• Four Stories Japan writer Jessica Goodfellow's poem "Road Trip" gets highlighted by VerseDaily's Web site.  And check out her award-winning chapbook, A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos in the Heartland.
   
• The paperback version of Four Stories author Jen Trynin's memoir Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale will be released in February, 2007.  The hardcover hit the Boston Globe best seller list and was named a People "Great Read" and an Entertainment Weekly "Editor's Choice" book!  If you haven't read it, get it now on Amazon!
  
  
  
   
• The International Herald Tribune highlights the global significance of Four Stories hottie Michael Lowenthal's new book Charity Girl , which has just been released by Houghton Mifflin. Buy the book online, read more rave reviews, or get  tour dates.
  
  Check out Four Stories alum Tracy McArdle's new novel, Real Women Eat Beef, on Amazon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Four Stories reader Jessica Berger Gross's anthology About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope, has just been published.  Buy it on Amazon,!
   
• Four Stories author Jamie Cat Callan's book Hooking Up or Holding Out has just come out!  Buy it on Amazon.
  
  
  
  
   
• Four Stories founder Tracy Slater writes for the Chronicle Review  about  "Teaching Gender Issues to Inmates."
   
• The film adaptation of the acclaimed  novel Little Children, written by Four Stories alum Tom Perrotta, premiered in NYC on 9/30/06 and opened in Boston on 10/20/06. See more at Tom Perrotta's new Web site.
   
• Elizabeth Benedict's The Practice of Deceit is now out in Paperback! Read the book that has prompted these praises and more: "She writes the hard, horrifying truth about human nature, and it is addictively entertaining ... A rare find--" Newsday;  "A nail biter of a psychological thriller--" Susan Isaacs; "A terrific nonstop read--" Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives; "Cancel your appointment with your therapist and read this book--" A reader on www.bn.com.  More info @ http://www.elizabethbenedict.com.
   
• Tonya and Nancy: The Opera previewed at the A.R.T.'s Zero Arrow Theater in Harvard Sq. on May 2nd, 2006, catching the eye of AP Press,The Boston Globe, and more. The libretto, based on the infamous skating scandal, is by author and Four Stories alum Elizabeth Searle (Celebrities In Disgrace) and will appear in Post Road Magazine's upcoming issue. Other accolades include:
  
  From National Public Radio:  "Knee whacking as opera―That's irresistible!"―Bill Littlefield
  
  From the Portland Oregonian:  "Edgy and dark and musically funny... An opera that involves everything from domestic fury to knee-whacking...A complex classical piece that pops with intensity...[On opening night], the crowd roars... Halfway up the theater, a handful of audience members―friendlies―obviously―hold up big white scorecards. They read: "6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0, 6.0." Read full article.
   
• Jaime Clarke's second novel, Vernon Downs, was published by Impetus Press in September 2006. He is also the editor of the anthology Some Kind Of Wonderful: Contemporary Writers On The Films Of John Hughes, due out from Simon & Schuster in Spring 2007.Visit his blog @ www.breteastonellis.blogspot.com.
   

• Michael Lowenthal’s new novel, Charity Girl, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in January 2007. He also recently wrote the introduction for a new edition of John Preston's novel Franny, The Queen Of Provincetown, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. More info www.MichaelLowenthal.com.

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