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The San Francisco Chronicle  

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/joe-di-prisco-poetry-18491649

Drinks with Tony

https://www.drinkswithtony.com/joe-di-prisco-258/

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive/2023/12/06/author-joseph-di-prisco-discusses-my-last-resume-on-conversationslive

Joe Di Prisco Bet on Literature—and Won Big

One author’s journey from the mobster-lined streets of Brooklyn to the shelves of academia and the New Literary Project. By Paul Wilner
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2021/joe-di-prisco-bet-on-literature

SO NOW THAT YOU’VE BEEN DIAGNOSED!
By Joseph Di Prisco

https://failbetter.com/content/so-now-you%E2%80%99ve-been-diagnosed

A Great Good Place for Books
Author Joe Di Prisco Zooms Into GGP to Discuss The Good Family Fitzgerald
https://www.ggpbooks.com/DiPriscoEvent


OTHERPPL
Episode 655 — Joseph Di Prisco
The Nervous Breakdown with Brad Listi, a conversation with Joseph Di Prisco.


Virtual Event sponsored by Orinda Books

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Reading & Writing Podcast
Listen to the interview here:


Drinks with Tony Podcast
November 4, 2020
Listen to the interview here:


Radio Nemo: Live Interview on Sirius XM
Saturday June 6
9am CDT / 7am PDT

Listen to the Interview here:


Sean Penn in conversation with Joseph Di Prisco at UC Berkeley
Monday 16 September, 2019
7-9PM



Great Good Place for Books
23 August, Thursday,7PM
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611

https://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joseph-di-prisco-author-sibella-sibella-will-visit-ggp-thursday-august-23rd-700-pm


The Last Bookstore
26 September, Wednesday, 7:30PM
453 S Spring St—Ground Floor
Los Angeles 90013

http://lastbookstorela.com/

http://lastbookstorela.com/events/everything-always-wanted-know-book-publishing-afraid-ask/

or download the flyer for more information on the event: Everything you always wanted to know about book publishing but were afraid to ask.


Conversation on Youtube about Sibella & Sibella

Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler
"AM Ocala Live!"

WOCA "The Source"
96.3 FM 1370 AM
6 August 2018


Conversation with Paul VanDyke about Sibella & Sibella
Write On Radio; Minneapolis-Saint Paul
24 July 2018


Bay Area Book Festival
How Stories Make the World

Sunday, April 29 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Saul, Ismail Muhammad, Anthony Marra, moderated by Joe Di Prisco

Everything we understand about the world comes from stories: those we hear in school, those we read in books, and those we believe about each other. These panelists—all titans of storytelling—will discuss the power stories have to galvanize the world, create cultures, and bind us all together. Don’t miss your chance to hear Joyce Carol Oates, who boasts a lifetime of achievements as a great American author and Pulitzer Prize nominee (her new story collection, “Beautiful Days” came out in February); Scott Saul, biographer of late comedian Richard Pryor and also a UC Berkeley English professor with Oates; writer and critic Ismail Muhammad; Chair of the Simpson Family Literary Project Joe Di Prisco; and Anthony Marra, recipient of the 2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize. These brilliant writers will interrogate how we shape stories—and how stories shape us.

https://www.baybookfest.org/session/how-stories-make-the-world/

Poems: Poetry Foundation

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joseph-di-prisco

March 2018: Joseph Di Prisco in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and T. Geronimo Johnson

 

October 2017: Simpson Project Award Night


Appearances for The Pope of Brooklyn

Bay Area Book Festival, Cornerstone, 2367 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Sunday, June 4
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Perfect Satire: T. Geronimo Johnson and Joseph Di Prisco on Skewering Identity Politics, Class, Race and More
Joseph Di Prisco, T. Geronimo Johnson, John McMurtrie

T. Geronimo Johnson has been compared to Tom Wolfe, Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, H.L. Mencken, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and Ralph Ellison. His award-winning novel ‘Braggsville’ has been called “the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy and white racial anxiety to hit the scene in years” (New York Times) and a “searing, shocking look at racial issues and campus activism” (Men’s Journal). “Braggsville” involves UC Berkeley students and a re-enactment of a Civil War play in the South; need we say more? Get a peek into Johnson’s new novel underway about the convergence of Afro-futurism, global AI, corporate religion, tech inequity and more. He recently won the Simpson Family Literary Prize and is joined by Joseph Di Prisco, chairman of the Prize, himself the author of numerous books, including the recent memoirs ‘Subway to California’ and ‘The Pope of Brooklyn.’ Moderated by the San Francisco Chronicle’s books editor, John McMurtrie.

https://www.baybookfest.org/2017-schedule/


DIESEL, A Bookstore, 5433 College Ave, Oakland
Sunday, July 9
3PM

POETRY FLASH WITH DON BOGEN AND JOSEPH DI PRISCO
Poetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews!

Don Bogen’s most recent book of poems is An Algebra. D. A. Powell says, “Don Bogen is a wise and playful poet who manages the personal and the political with equal aplomb. He takes hold of poetry, the shape-shifting god, and in his hands it twists, morphs, relinquishes. Bogen reinvigorates the art by defining its limits, then pushing bravely past.” His previous collections include The Known World and Luster. He is also a translator, notably of Europa: Selected Poems by Julio Martinez Mesanca, a key Spanish poet of the generation that came to prominence after the death of Franco. He is Poetry Editor for The Cincinnati Review.

Joseph Di Prisco’s new book of poems is Sight Lines from the Cheap Seats. Dean Young writes that “addressing unquenchable longing and the shadows of death and failure, the lyric engines of [his] poems propel us with vital combustion…a large, funny, and indefatigable spirit.” He is a novelist and a memoirist, the most recent being The Pope of Brooklyn, sequel to the celebrated Subway to California. Di Prisco is also Chair of the Simpson Family Literary Project, a partnership between the Lafayette Library/Learning Center Foundation and the UC Berkeley English Department.


 

Thursday, March 30,7:00 PM PST(available afterward on the Library channel)
DiPrisco/”Pope of Brooklyn” interview by Kim Dower at the Lafayette Library

 

Thursday, 30 March, 6:00 PM Launch Party catered by Postino, hosted by me; 7:00 PM Spoken Words
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Lafayette, CA 94549

This gorgeous facility is a short stroll from the Lafayette BART station; plentiful parking if you drive.

As part of the Center's Distinguished Speaker Series, I will be in conversation with Kim Dower, Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. To reserve your place:

https://lafayettelib.givezooks.com/events/dss-joe-di-prisco-the-pope-of-brooklyn

Monday, 27 March, KQED Forum, 10-11 AM;
interviewed by Michael Krasny
Author Joe Di Prisco Reflects on His Father’s History as Gambler and FBI Informant
https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/03/24/author-joe-di-prisco-reflects-on-his-fathers-history-as-gambler-and-fbi-informant/

Thursday, 16 March, 7:00 PM
Great Good Place for Books
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611

I will be in conversation with excellent poet and novelist and English professor Alex Green at my go-to Montclair indie bookstore. Wine and refreshments and signed books.

http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joseph-di-prisco-pope-brooklyn


Appearances for The Alzhammer

Book Circle Online. The incandescent James Lott interviews me about The Alzhammer. James does an absolutely inspiring and inspired job of illuminating the novel in conversation with me.

Interview on LA Talk Radio, Answers for the Family; a discussion of The Alzhammer and dementia with the engaging team of Allen Cardozo and Dr. Matt Polachek.
http://latalkradio.com/sites/default/files/audio/Answers-060616.mp3

Cogitate Podcast, Issue 3, Cogswell College, organized by the brilliant Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. My part about the Pope of Brooklyn begins about 20 minutes in, but the rest of the program is eminently worth listening to.
https://soundcloud.com/user-130149284/cogitate-the-last-gun-june-1

Huffington Post: I am a contributor to Huffpost and this piece is "The Pope of Brooklyn," who was my dad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-pope-of-brooklyn_us_57548b7de4b0da3a3aea79d9

Thursday, July 14, 2016, 4PM
Toadstool Books, Peterborough, New Hampshire; I am in conversation about The Alzhammer with my longtime friend (and onetime college roommate) David Robins: Peterborough, NH at 12 Depot Sq. 603-924-3543 email books@ptoad.com

Monday, June 6, 2016– 11 am PST
ANSWERS FOR THE FAMILY
LA TALK RADIO. Interview with Allen Cardoza

http://answersforthefamily.com/the-alzhammer-or-keep-your-friends-close-and-i-forget-the-other-thing-joe-di-prisco/

www.latalkradio.com

Tuesday, 15 March, 7:00 PM
Great Good Place for Books
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611

I will be in conversation with excellent poet and English professor Alex Green at my go-to Montclair indie bookstore. Wine and refreshments and signed books.  

http://www.ggpbooks.com/event/joe-di-prisco-alzhammer-or-keep-your-friends-close-and-i-forget-other-thing-conversation-alex

Thursday, 31 March, 7:00 PM
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Lafayette, CA 94549

This gorgeous facility is a short stroll from the Lafayette BART station; plentiful parking if you drive.

As part of the Center's Distnguished Speaker Series, I will be reading from and discussing The Alzhammer.Alongside me, there will be two terrific participants on the panel: Anne Rosenthal, PhD, MFT, CMC: dementia specialist, certified professional care manager; Joe Loya: one-time bank robber, actor, author of The Man Who Outgrew His Cell.

$10 admission: to support the Learning Center's extensive educational initiatives;
$20 admission: this gets you also a signed book.

Wine and small plates catered by popular local restaurant Postino; Steph Curry says that's his go-to Italian place, and who's going to argue with the MVP?

710 WOR AM Radio, New York City.
I am interviewed by Rob Taub on Stribling's New York about The Alzhammer.

Here is the very lively Panel Discussion of The Alzhammer with Anne Rosenthal, Regan McMahon, Ruth Thornburg, and me on YouTube.

The World of Dementia - Author Joe Di Prisco - The America Meditating Radio Show. I am interviewed by the charismatic Sister Jenna.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/americameditating/2016/04/14/the-world-of-dementia--author-joe-di-prisco--the-america-meditating-radio-show