Michael Pearson

The best sorts of journeys are the the ones we take in our imaginations....

ones remembered

ones anticipated


The past, present, and future are all now....

Events: Readings and Signings

(Time Travelers -- Somewhere in Wyoming -- 1970)

Recent and Forthcoming READINGS/​SIGNINGS/​ADVENTURES:

November 14, 2008 -- 7-8: Prince Books, Norfolk, Virginia.

December 6, 2008 -- 1:30-3:00: Barnes and Noble, MacArthur Mall, Norfolk, Virginia.


January 13, 2009 -- 7:00-8:00: Barnes and Noble, 82nd Street and Broadway, NYC.

January 23, 2009 -- 7:00-8:00: Tattered Cover, Denver, Colorado.

February 10, 2009 -- 12-1: Follett's University Village Bookstore, Old Dominion University.

March 7, 2009 -- 2-3: DeWitt Community Library, Syracuse, New York.

March 21, 2009 -- Va Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, noon at New Dominion Bookshop, 404 East Main Street.


September 22, 2009 -- North Suffolk Library, Suffolk, Virginia, 6:30 p.m.

March 13, 2010 -- Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, 2-4 p.m.

March 18, 2010 -- CCNY, New York, NY, 1-2 p.m.

March 24-25, 2010 -- Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 7-8:30 p.m.

October 22, 2010 -- Wesminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 10:30-11:30 (reading) and 3-4 (workshop)

Feb. 3, 2011 -- AWP, Washington, D. C., Hampton BR, Omni, 1:30-2:45

May 13-May 30, 2011 -- Adventure in Travel Writing/​Study Abroad -- for students or post-college travelers/​writers -- Travel to Madrid and along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain (see the ODU Study Abroad Website http:/​/​www.odu.edu/​ao/​oip/​studyabroad/​short_progs/​sutravelwriting.shtml or contact mpearson@​odu.edu)

Nov 1, 2011 -- Virginia Beach Higher Education Center, 10-12.

March 30, 2012 -- College English Association, Richmond, Virginia, 9:30-10:45.

Nonfiction (travel)
Innocents Abroad Too
"Pearson is a most companionable guide to take us worlds away." --Arthur Saltzman, author of Nearer: Essays
Fiction
Shohola Falls
Shohola Falls is a fever dream of a novel that brilliantly weaves past and present, fact and imagination to describe a young man’s quest for himself”
--Tom Kelly, author of Payback
Memoir
Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx
“Achingly American, a bittersweet elegy that echoes Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac”
--Mike D’Orso, author of Like Judgment Day
Nonfiction/travel
Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America
“A wild travelogue told by a scholarly tour guide”
--The New Orleans Times Picayune
“A fascinating report on America”
--The Columbia S. C. State