by Lawrence Coates | Nov 10, 2015 | News, Reviews
I was very pleased to see that Small Press Distribution chose my novella, Camp Olvido, as one of their recommended books this...
by Lawrence Coates | Nov 5, 2015 | News, Reviews
Library Journal wrote of Camp Olvido: This starkly beautiful work delivers a sense of entrapment most of us can barely...
by Lawrence Coates | Oct 29, 2015 | News, Reviews
Frances Brent, of the Sentinel – Tribune, calls The Goodbye House a winner. “Like its predecessors the setting (of The Goodbye House) is California’s ever redefined Santa Clara Valley. Once orchards and vineyards thrived. The farmland is now the Silicon Valley of modern mythology with technology the failing or bumper crop. In 2003 its citizens are enduring the melancholy of 9/11 and the dot com collapse. It is an era of lowered expectations. The mood is nostalgic – not sentimental. The past is recognized, honored, unmourned. Coates’ achievement – a universal, at times comic, modern family tale weaving time and setting into action.” Sentinel – Tribune, October 28,...
by Lawrence Coates | Oct 12, 2015 | Events, News
Some notice from The San Jose Mercury. “Multi-prize winning author Lawrence Coates discusses his latest work of fiction, The Goodbye...
by Lawrence Coates | Oct 7, 2015 | News
“The novella is an exploration of one man’s bold actions and their consequences, and shows the dark side of California’s prosperity, with violence and, unexpectedly, elements of the divine” Great to see a pre-publication notice of Camp Olvido from the University of Utah Reading...
by Lawrence Coates | Sep 24, 2015 | News, Reviews
“A novel both of homecoming and leave-taking, The Goodbye House, with its blue-and-white clouds cover, illuminates with a generous spirit the life of a family and a region during a time of change.” Zoom News, September 24,...
Lawrence Coates is the author of five books, most recently The Goodbye House. His work has been recognized with the Western States Book Award in Fiction, the Donald Barthelme Prize in Short Prose, the Miami University Press Novella Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Bowling Green State University.