Award-winning author JOSIP NOVAKOVICH is promoting fiction “INFIDELITIES – Stories of War and Lust,” published by Harper Perennial $12.95 www.harperpenennial.com

This Croatian-American writer returns to the short story form with a new collection in which he once more underscores the everyday absurdities that temper the darker realities of life.

Novakovich is the winner of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A resident of central Pennsylvania, he teaches at Penn State University.

Books by Josip Novakovich: novel “April Fool’s Day, short fiction “Salvation and Other Disasters, Yolk; essays “Plum Brandy: A Croatian Journey”, Apricots from Chernobyl; as editor “Stepmother Tongue: Stories in English as a Second Language” (with Robert Shapard); “Fiction Writer’s Workshop” and “Writing Fiction Step by Step”;

Tour schedule for “INFIDELITIES – Stories of War and Lust”:

NEW YORK SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 KGB Reading Series

2 Horatio St. #2F

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 THE NEW SCHOOL

66 West 12th St

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 192 BOOKS

192 10TH Ave

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 National Arts Club

245 East 21st St. #10C

COLONIE, NY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 BARNES & NOBLE

7:30 PM 20 Wolf Rd

Colonie, NY 10011

PITTSBURGH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 BARNES & NOBLE

3:00 PM 1723 Murray Ave

STATE COLLEGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 WEBSTER’S BOOKSTORE

PA 8:00 PM CAFÉ 128 South Allen St

VERMONT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

ANN ARBOR, MI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 BORDERS

7:OO PM 612 East Liberty

KALAMAZOO,MI THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 WESTERN MICHIGAN

UNIVERSITY

LOS ANGELES WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16 VROMEN’S BOOKSTORE

7:00 PM 695 East Colorado Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91101

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 LOS ANGELES PUBLIC

LIBRARY, “A Conversation

With Philip Gourevitch”

630 West 5th St

COLORADO SPRINGS FRIDAY,DECEMBER 2 COLORADO COLLEGE

Submitted by Katarina Tepesh