News & Interviews
Listen to Joan Baum’s review for NPR’s WSHU
My “8 Rural Noir” recommendations on LitHub’s CrimeReads
Corvallis Gazette-Times profile
Watch the Old Newgate Road book trailer
Interview excerpt with Sally Knight of Loomis Chaffee
OLD NEWGATE ROAD, my latest novel, will be released by Knopf January 8, 2019.
Afscheidingsbetwegingen USA, a Dutch profile by Jan Donkers
Humbolt Journal of Social Relations interview with Matthew Derrick, 2014 (link to Humbolt Journal of Social Relations homepage, Humbolt State University)
THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN interview with Jen Michalski, Nov. 8, 2012
Loomis Chaffee alumni magazine profile, by James Rugen
ZONE LITTERAIRE review of the French edition of THE OREGON EXPERIMENT, Sept. 7, 2012
LA MARSEILLAISE review of the French edition, Oct. 21, 2012
L’ACCOUDOIR review of the French edition, Sept. 17, 2012
LE MATRICULE DES ANGES review of the French edition
PAGE magazine review of the French edition
Baptiste Liger’s review of the French edition, Oct. 2012
Technikart review of the French edition
FIVE CHAPTERS publishes my short story “Pyre” in five parts this week, Aug. 6, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, “Lives,” How My Grandmother Became Flush With Syrup, Aug. 5, 2012
SAN QUENTIN NEWS, following my last visit to the prison to teach a creative writing class of inmates, January 2012 (scroll down to page 2)
THE MILLIONS: Year in Reading, 2011, Dec. 13, 2011
UK’s The Guardian/Observer lists The Oregon Experiment as one of their Critics’ Choice holiday books, November 26, 2011
Reuters interview with Chelsea Emery, Book Talk: Inside the Angry Mind of an Anarchist, Nov. 3, 2011 (picked up by many news outlets worldwide, including CNBC, The Baltimore Sun, and Reuters UK)
Listen to my interview with Hopeton Hay on KAZI Book Review in Austin, Texas
Listen to my interview with Laura McCandlish on KLCC’s “Northwest Passage,” Sept. 20, 2011
Radio interview on KGAL’s “Valley Talk” with host Ray Pietz, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, 11:35-noon
“Anarchy Amid Oregon’s Sights and Scents,” in the Salem (OR) Statesman Journal by Barbara Curtin, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011
Interview with Tom Barbash on The Rumpus, Aug. 2, 2011
“From Fingerbone to West Hanratty: Why Remote Settings Work,” Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s “NorthWest Book Lovers,” Aug. 2, 2011
Interview with Caroline Leavitt on CarolineLeavittville, July 26, 2011
Listen to my interview on Albany, New York’s, WAMC; “The Roundtable” with Joe Donahue, July 27, 2011
My op-ed, “The Anarchist Next Door,” on THE DAILY BEAST, 7/21/11
French rights to THE OREGON EXPERIMENT placed with Dominique Bourgois at Editions Christian Bourgois, who publishes, among others, Toni Morrison, Jim Harrison, John Fante, Susan Sontag, Annie Dillard, Peter Carey, Jayne Anne Phillips, Bret Easton Ellis, Tobias Wolff, Thomas McGuane, Laura Kasishke and Michael Collins.
Powell’s Books guest blogs, July 11-15
Bend Source Weekly’s “State of Mind: Keith Scribner’s The Oregon Experiment…,” by Mike Bookey, 6/12/11
Listen to my interview with Dave Miller on KOPB’s “Think Out Loud”
Fiction Writers Review interview with J.T. Bushnell
Corvallis Gazette-Times: “Homage to Corvallis: The Oregon Experiment,” by Mike McInally, 6/24/11
Interview with Curtis Sittenfeld about THE OREGON EXPERIMENT on Amazon.com (There’s a video there, too.)
Jennifer Tyler’s review of THE OREGON EXPERIMENT on Three Guys One Book
The Sunday Oregonian: “Where I Write: Keith Scribner at Oregon State’s Center for the Humanities,” by Jeff Baker, 6/12/11
Oregon State University homepage story: “The Oregon Experiment,” by Celene Carillo, 6/10/11
Named “Best Writer of the Willamette Valley” in the 2010 Readers’ Choice issue of the Corvallis Gazette-Times
“IN PERSON; A Tale and the Man Who had to Tell It,” The New York Times profile
“Father and son, co-authors in a shared life,The Baltimore Sun
“Farm scribe enjoys ‘GoodLife,'” The Stanford Daily profile
The National Kidney Foundation Luncheon program notes