P R E S S CURRENT NEWS!! 1. Amanda's story, "Getting Rid of the Clown," has been serialized on Five Chapters a site helmed by the brilliant Dave Daley. 2. Amanda's 2nd Night Out With, for the Sunday New York Times Style section is with The Whitest Kids U' Know. OLD NEWS!! 0. Amanda's 1st Night Out With, for the Sunday New York Times Style section is with Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet. 1. THE LONG HAUL has been chosen by the fashion collective Lola New York as the first fiction title they'll sell in their clothing store, Blue&Cream, in Southampton. Launch party - August 1st. Press Release 2. Amanda moderated a discussion for Nextbook.org with three amazingly smart kids on Young Adult fiction. They all read and reviewed three books. Listen to the podcast here. 3. I've been interviewed. Bellaonline. 4. Amanda Stern and Kevin Canty have TAG-TEAMED 5. Amanda picks her favorite books in THE WEEK MAGAZINE STAFF PICKS 1. Bookworks, reviewed by Carolyn, in NM TOP TEN LIST!!!! 1. The Believer 2. Powells.com Small Press Top Ten List -- Week of October 20th 3. Razorcake's Best of 2003 REVIEWS OF THE LONG HAUL 1. Raintaxi, reviewed by Stephanie Anderson, Summer 2004 2. Library Journal, reviewed by Andrea Kempf, December, 2003 3. Venus Magazine, reviewed by John Vincler, Winter Issue 2003-2004 4. Uncut Magazine, reviewed by Nick Johnstone, Nov 6, 2003 5. Publishers' Weekly, Oct 20, 2003 6. The San Francisco Chronicle , reviewed by Summer Block, Oct 12, 2003 7. Small Spiral Notebook Reviewed by Felicia Sullivan 8. Barcelona Review 9. Village Voice, Shortlisted by Ed Park, 2003 10. Seattle Weekly, reviewed by Laura Cassidy, Nov 5-11, 2003 11. Lodi Public Library, reviewed by Sandy Smith INTERVIEWS WITH AMANDA 1. Maud Newton's fabulous blog in Lauren Cerand's amazing "Smart Set" section. (but you have to scroll down because I can't figure out the tag in html to get you there automatically) 2006 2. Bookslut Interview by Janine Armin, August 2005 3. Word Riot Interview by Kevin Sampsell, March 2005 4. Gothamist Interview by Jen Chung, Oct 2004 5. Maisonneuve Interview with Nathaniel Moore / Issue # 7 6. Suicide Girls Interviewed by the late, great, Daniel Robert Epstein, January 2004 7. The Practical Writer, by Joanna Smith Rakoff, Poets and Writers, Sept/Oct, 2003 8. Driving Ambition, by James Macgowan, Ottawa Citizen, October 19, 2003 9. Drivin Miss Crazy, by James Macgowan, Ottawa Citizen, August 24, 2003 MORE PRESS 1. Empty Beach (Rob Williams' blog features The Long Haul!) 2. Soft Skull: Home to First Novels, by John F. Baker, Publishers Weekly, July 29, 2002 3. Best of the Web: Author Seeks Tour Companion., Publishers Weekly, August 14, 2003 4. Las Vegas: Upfront 5. Versus Press. Not sure they are still in existence, but they were a cool indie press in SF and they put me on their Essential Reading list, which is nice. 6. Poets and Writers Teacher's Guide. Poets & Writers suggests the following exercise in their online Teachers' Guide. "Read the excerpt of Amanda Stern's The Long Haul (Poets & Writers Magazine,page 74). How do repetition and sound affect the tone of this scene? What is the effect? Write a brief essay charting and discussing the poetic qualities of Stern's prose."