Press for Each Vagabond by Name
2017
New work! An excerpt from my new novel, The Distance from Four Points, was published in Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists. (July)
Each Vagabond by Name wins a Gold Medal in the 2017 IPPY Awards for Best Regional Fiction (Mid-Atlantic)!
Compose Journal's spring issue includes an interview and excerpt of Each Vagabond by Name. (April)
A beautiful interview by Karin Cecile Davidson is up at Newfound: "The Quiet Power of Small-Town Stories: An Interview with Margo Orlando Littell." (March)
2016
The Next Best Book Club (TNBBC) names Each Vagabond by Name one of the Top Reads of 2016. (December)
Each Vagabond by Name is Long-Listed for the 2017 Tournament of Books!
A short essay on strangers, small-town spaghetti dinners, and the real meaning of the food served up in those church halls—"A Sacred Meal on a Styrofoam Plate" up today at Real Pants. (November)
Selected as a reader for the Fall 2016 Saint Vincent College Visiting Writers Series. (November)
Xenophobia, small towns, and the eerie echoes of Each Vagabond by Name in the current political landscape, examined in my essay up on Medium: "I'd Never Vote for Trump—but My Characters Would" (October)
In Each Vagabond by Name, "a Pennsylvanian town stands as a microcosm for our response to the millions of immigrants, refugees, and displaced people on the move across the world." It's so gratifying to have this layer of Vagabond explored in depth. Read more at Mom Egg Review. (August)
A pickup truck, a scalding-hot cup of black coffee, a terrifying late-night phone call...Each Vagabond by Name is all these things and more. Check out Vagabond's "If My Book" feature on Monkeybicycle! (August)
I was interviewed by Late Night Library about Each Vagabond by Name as folktale, the lure of my small-town setting, and the one image from my book that says it all. Wonderful questions, wonderful literary site. (August)
From the Coal Hill Review: "Ultimately, we’re left with a startling rediscovery of what love, loyalty, and redemption can look like for characters who appear to have little perspective of the future beyond their ordinary lives." (July)
A lovely discussion and review of Each Vagabond by Name as a "clan narrative" akin to the Icelandic sagas, on Readers Unbound. (July)
Each Vagabond by Name is one of xoJane's "7 Serious Summer-Avoidant Anti-Beach Reads"—"These summer must-reads come with substance." (July)
Bustle includes Each Vagabond by Name on a list of 15 Great Appalachian Novels that Reflect the Unique Culture of the Region. From the intro: "These are books with dirty fingernails, gravel roads, injury, illness, and death, and they are lovely." (June)
Each Vagabond by Name is featured on Susan Larson's "The Reading Life" on WWNO, New Orleans Public Radio. Susan talks to me and my publisher about Vagabond's path to publication. Listen anytime at WWNO. (May)
The awesome site Littsburgh—spotlighting the best of literary Pittsburgh—features an excerpt from Each Vagabond by Name as its #FridayReads selection! And in the Littsburgh Q&A, I discuss who I'd most like to share a plate of pierogis with. (May)
I guest-post for The Quivering Pen's "My First Time" series, writing about letting my mother read my novel for the first time—after a decade of keeping my writing as secret as an extramarital affair. (May)
The Next Best Book Blog features Each Vagabond by Name in its Indie Spotlight! I guest-blog about small-town gossip and how a phone call with my mother set my novel in motion. (May)
Know Louisiana hails the pre-release reading of Each Vagabond by Name as a Top 10 Pick at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. (March)
Interview on Talk Westmoreland, 1480 WCNS Latrobe. I talk to host Hank Baughman about Each Vagabond by Name, growing up in southwestern Pennsylvania, and the area's influence on my work. (March)
The Great Writers Steal Podcast. My first podcast! I talk to Great Writers Steal mastermind Kenneth Nichols about writing, reading, my path to publication, and, of course, Each Vagabond by Name. (March)