Kurt Andersen

I’ll be heading out across the country — to Atlanta, Nashville, Columbus (Ohio), Denver, Salt Lake City, and Portland (Oregon) — for readings and discussions and signings in bookstores. (To find out exactly where and when I’ll be appearing, you can see my schedule here.)

Now, a confession and an offer. There were two tiny factual errors in the hardcover which I’ve corrected in the paperback. To the first person who tells me what they were (at emailandersen@aol.com) — or, failing that, to whomever finds either one of them by April 1, 2008 — I’ll send a personally inscribed copy of the book plus the unabridged, 22-CD BBC Audiobooks America edition.

Happy hunting, and hope to see you soon.

The paperback edition of Heyday was published this week. It’s a very gratifying object, and not just because it’s swaddled in page after page of bits of critical praise. The cover image is the same as on the hardback — a photograph of an anonymous circa-1848 young man. But the cover has a quarter inch sliced off its right margin, so that the bright red edge of a second cover is visible beneath, this one featuring the young woman (one Kate Chase Norcross) who’s on the back of the hardcover edition.

By the way? During the last few weeks the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times and Christian Science Monitor all put Heyday on their best-books-of-2007 lists; the Monitor calls it one of the 19 best novels of the year.

So: happy new year!

And now, back to work on the next one.