CAROUSEL COURT: A NOVEL (Simon&Schuster August 2, 2016)

Following the breakout success of his “searing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel The Delivery Man, Joe McGinniss Jr. returns with Carousel Court: a bold, original, and exhilarating novel of marriage as blood sport that reads like Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding. PRAISE “Here it is, the leveraged, frayed, unfaithful, buzzed America that all the baloney entertainment products, including a lot that pose as literature, are designed to cover up. Can you handle the truth? Then step inside. This scathing novel of our strange new century is like nothing else I’ve read in years.” —Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air “Carousel Court pulls no punches, taking on nothing less than marriage, and the false promises of our American Dream. These are great big subjects and Joe McGinniss Jr. is more than up to them. Mature and smart and in control of his arsenal, he writes tenderly about family and parenthood, and is every bit as clear-eyed when the subject is underwater mortgages or secret sexting. The result is a hell of a roller coaster. Strap yourself.” —Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children “In urgent, kaleidoscopic prose, Joe McGinniss Jr. diagnoses the American Dream with a high fever, jaundice, and severe heartburn. Set in a simmering suburban Los Angeles, Carousel Court is the portrait of a disastrous but thoroughly modern marriage whose young wife, Phoebe Maguire, is hurtling toward a pill-fueled implosion that’s impossible to look away from. The pitch-perfect ending reverberates like a handbell after a hurricane.” —Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man - See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Carousel-Court/Joe-McGinniss/9781476791272#sthash.x1ZhKpcK.dpuf

New Novel

It's time... ;) News coming

Progress report...

Novel...soon

Film...soon

Danish TDM

Update: Film Rights...Second novel...

Sold film rights in April. Script near completion. More news to come...but a very gratifying process all around.

Second novel coming together...if you manage to pick up a copy of the Romanian edition of The Delivery Man there's a brief summary of the next novel, including the working title. You'll likely have to use Google Translator to make any sense of it.

Btw...read Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial Bedrooms...wow. Fast, dark, noir-ish, eerie, all about hollywood and desperation and exploitation. And that scene near the end? Holy sh*t!

Romanian TDM (aka 'Las Vegas Story')

G'day mate...

5th printing ...

and some cool changes to the cover -- lovin' it. should be in stores in a few weeks. and damn -- president obama is kicking ass.

Here's something I wrote from 1-20-09 [Dispatch from Washington, DC]

link: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/jan/22/scale-too-grand-words/

TDM gets some year end love...

Thanks to Rodger Jacobs and Popmatters for the recognition.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/67359-popmatters-best-of-books-2008-fiction


And check out Northline by Willy Vlautin -- actually, go buy it.
http://www.amazon.com/Northline-Willy-Vlautin/dp/0571235719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231285614&sr=1-1



And Roland Merullo's new novel that's getting rave reviews -- a thriller called Fidel's Last Days. It'll be a movie, for sure.
http://www.amazon.com/Fidels-Last-Days-Roland-Merullo/dp/1400048680/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231285663&sr=1-1

El Repartidor [The Dealer] --- Spanish Edition

Il ragazzo delle consegne...from l'Unita [an Italian newspaper]

How Sweet It Is

Il Ragazzo delle Consegne [Italian]

Urban Outfitters...too cool

check out TDM at the UO website...here's a link:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/category.jsp?navAction=jump&navCount=168&itemCount=&id=APARTMENT_FURNISH

Updates...

The UK publication is proceeding...here's the cover.

The next thing is coming together.

Julien is walking. He's a year old. Twelve months and twelve days. His first word is "ball." Though it comes out "gawl." He picks up any ball and says "gawl" and throws it. "gawl..gawl..gawl." He climbs the couch like a ring-tailed lemur. He waves hello and goodbye. He dances, knees tucked under butt, bouncing up and down and smiling, to the plastic tunes that emanate from his plastic playpen when he hits any of the translucent colored plastic panels. He flops, letting his muscles go slack, passive resistance to being put down. He turns the pages of his little picture books when left alone in his crib or on the floor and giggles at each new image as he goes. This little half-laugh that's almost forced, like he knows he's supposed to react, show appreciation each time he greets the same red pail or dancing pig. He's turning me into one of those parents who post all the amazing little things their baby does. Apologies. His head's too big. He's too skinny. He doesn't eat enough. He eats too much. He should be talking. He's inside too much. He's anti-social. He's too light. He's too brown. His hair's too thin. His hair's too curly. He doesn't have enough. He has too much. He has a mohawk. His teeth are crooked. He's awake too late. He's up too early. He can't talk. He won't eat peas. He poops too much. He hasn't pooped in days. He's obsessed with a plastic pig, sticks it's head in his mouth like it's a pacifier. He has his pacifier in his mouth too much. He'll never talk. He says "gawl." I don't read to him enough. I read the same book too often. You're supposed to. You're not supposed to. He found his peter, but only remembers it when his diaper's off. That'll change. I gave him some mashed up Gerber's chickenvegtablesoup-from-a-jar that was all pasty and thick. He refused it. I couldn't figure out why. Perhaps heating it up first would help. Maybe reading the directions on the little jar would help. But I'm tired and he's crying and when will the second book get written and what will it be about and why do I need so many Advil when I haven't played "gawl" in a week?

What is all this? Monday.

Romanian rights sold

Amy Hundley at Grove closed another foreign sale of TDM to Editura Trei in Romania. Thanks, Amy. Good times.

4th Printing Announced Today...

Very nice.

Last day of March...

Sales are strong and have actually gotten stronger -- so thanks to the word-of-mouth folks. And thanks again to our cover girl -- that face is selling books!

The third printing is in stores now. What's different? On the cover is the NY Times Editor's Choice mention and on the back are quotes from various reviews. Inside are the blurbs from incredible and generous writers: Roland Merullo, Jim Shepard, Craig Nova, Jill Eisenstadt, Michael Korda and George Pelecanos. And still, the cover-worthy quote from Janet Fitch remains on the cover. Does anyone other than my wife and me care about all of this? Of course not. But it's fun just the same.

Another good week for Barack. Endorsements roll in. Money piles high. Poll numbers up. Pressure on Hillary -- under heavy sniper fire -- polls dropping, money drying up, Bill red-faced and finger-wagging--never a good sign. Pennsylvania surprise? Page is turning...