Now
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit
What Happened to Carlotta
Carlotta Makes NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2022
(If anybody know da bull, it’s Carlotta, honey!)
And Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2022!
And Esquire’s Best Books of 2022!
The New York Review of Books loves Carlotta!
ƒ “Wondrous!” — John Irving, The New York Times Book Review
ƒ "Razor-sharp...dangerously hilarious!” — The Los Angeles Times
ƒ “Superb!” — Kirkus, Starred review
ƒ “Unrelentingly vulgar language!” — Financial Times
ƒ “Gloriously original!” — Booklist, Starred review
“Carlotta steps off the page and into your room, and stands there, implacable,
educating you on her terms.” — Lucy Sante
“Utterly brilliant!” — Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“I dare anyone to pick up Carlotta and not be blown away by the sheer craft of it.
To have written a book like this Hannaham surely must have done
a deal with the devil!” — Big Issue
now on video
¯ Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA January 31
with Jonathan Lethem!
events 2023
¯ Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA April 22
¯ PEN World Voices Festival, New York, NY May 13
¯ Carlotta: The Party, w/ Kalup Linzy & PEN Tulsa, Tulsa, OK May 20
¯ Carlotta: The Reading, Fulton Street Books, Tulsa, OK May 21
PAST
? Pilot Impostor Soft Skull Press
ƒ “Pilot Impostor proves that...”—Washington Post December 22
ƒ Between the Covers - Tin House Podcast February 1
ƒ LA Review of Books Podcast December 3
ƒ “Unclassifiable, dizzying, and gorgeous”—Kirkus (Starred review)
ƒ “Captivating”—Publishers Weekly
ƒ "...hilarious and beguiling...," The Rumpus November 12
ƒ Ten Questions, Poets & Writers November 30
ƒ “Why Writers Shouldn’t Wait for Permission...” Lit Hub November 30
ƒ “F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Manuscripts,”
The New York Times January 2
ƒ 13 Ways of Looking, Pioneer Works December 2
ƒ "Why a novelist of identity...,” LA Times November 23
ƒ "Up in the Air With...,” Kirkus October 25
ƒ Pessoa & Me, Bookforum Sep/Oct/Nov 2021
ê Text Based Cristin Tierney Gallery (online), NY May 26–July11, 2021
ê Jim Crow Hell No Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn February 18–April 1, 2021
? Delicious Foods March 2015 Little, Brown
? God Says No June 2009 McSweeney’s Books
PRESS
ƒ “Why On Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Manuscripts?“ The New York Times, December 21, 2020
ƒ “Artist and Writer James Hannaham Puts the Sign in Signification,”
Village Voice, February 16, 2021
ƒ “James Hannaham’s ‘Delicious Foods,’”The New York Times, April 3, 2015
