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Body SurfingA provocative, visceral thriller about a race of demons who inhabit humans, and the havoc they wreak on the lives of two small-town boys.Read More
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Mercer Island Reporter, September 23, 2009
...next week, when my children?s literature book group meets to discuss ?Sprout,? a young adult novel by Dale Peck, I will not be there. Each month, a group of my Portland friends meets in one of their homes to eat snacks, gossip about work and...
Atlantic Monthly, September 2, 2009
...end of gangsta rap. Some fun at the brother's expense. This was written after he slapped up Dale Peck. Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got...
Crains NY Business, July 14, 2009
...Christopher Hitchens. The publishers are also hammering out a deal to have a writers' collective led by novelist Dale Peck edit an imprint devoted to literary fiction and nonfiction. That will add six more titles per year. People are looking around for...
Houston Chronicle, June 26, 2009
...know. Sprout knows, too, but how he arrives at the understanding of his self-evident secret is what drives Dale Peck?s Sprout, a poignant novel about coming out and coming of age. Published by the children?s books division of Bloomsbury, the novel,...
New York Observer, April 30, 2009
...clients. Last April, he sold a trilogy of thrillers co-written by Heroes creator Tim Kring and the novelist Dale Peck for $3 million. The following September, he got $3 million more for a vampire trilogy by the director Guillermo del Toro. In October,...
CBC, April 25, 2009
...Once described as the ',' Dale Peck's approach to book reviewing has won him quite a bit of fame. He has taken many contemporary writers to task for what he feels are crimes against literature...
Village Voice, April 21, 2009
...m disappointed to report that April 14's 'The Death of Boom Culture?' panelfeaturing novelists Susan Straight and Dale Peck, critic Walter Benn Michaels, and Wire creator David Simon himselfdid not quite manage to conclusively remove the interrogative...
New York Times, April 13, 2009
...no more books set in decades when people still wore hats! (Want to know more? Go hear Michaels, Dale Peck and David Simon, the creator of The Wire, discuss at the New York Public Library on April 14 at 7 p.m. Dont panic! Michaels thinks its O.K...
Denver Post, March 8, 2009
...The virginal teenagers and swooning vampires of Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series wouldn't last long in Dale Peck's violent, overheated supernatural thriller, 'Body Surfing.' The novel's demonic antagonist, Leo, is one of an ancient race known as the...
New Yorker, February 26, 2009
...at which authors, artists, scholars, and scientists commingle and present work in ?a happy debauch of interpenetrating categories.? Dale Peck explains his infamous critique of Rick Moody as ?the worst writer of his generation?: ?I believed he...
Washington Post, February 18, 2009
...The virginal teenagers and swooning vampires of Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' series wouldn't last long in Dale Peck's violent, overheated supernatural thriller, 'Body Surfing.' The author of several previous novels, as well as the 'Drift House'...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 16, 2009
...in a fantasy series set in Eyrie, a land entering into civil war. (12-up) Sprout ($16.99) by Dale Peck. A gay, green-haired teen discovers that he's had a more profound effect on the lives of others than he realized. (14-up) Say the Word ($16.99) by...
Zoe's Book Reviews, January 6, 2010
...Katsu Aki 86. The Naughty List by Suzanne Young 87. Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick 88. Sprout by Dale Peck 89. Boyology by Sarah O'Leary Burningham 90. I Can't Keep My Own Secrets by Teens Famous and Obscure 91. DupliKate by Cherry Cheva 92. Castration...
Sarah's random musings..., January 2, 2010
...by Tom Dolby -352 pages 112. Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison -240 pages 113. Spourt by Dale Peck -288 pages 114. The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams -224 pages 115. Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter -272 pages 116. Academy 7...
Steph Su Reads, December 27, 2009
...think, keep you reading, and show naysayers the power and talent that exists in YA today. Sprout by Dale Peck A smart(ass) gay teen attempts to figure out his acceptance of himself in his extremely conservative community. (also on: Humor , GLBTQ/Gender )...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, December 15, 2009
...I got to take part in Roald Hoffman's Entertaining Science last year, I read it there too. Dale Peck Reviews Einstein's Latest --- Pedestrian crap. Albert Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity" (Annalen der Physik, Leipzig: Verlan Von Johann Ambrosius...
The World's Fair, December 15, 2009
...I got to take part in Roald Hoffman's Entertaining Science last year, I read it there too. Dale Peck Reviews Einstein's Latest --- Pedestrian crap. Albert Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity" (Annalen der Physik, Leipzig: Verlan Von Johann Ambrosius...
Dog Ear, November 20, 2009
...Without missing a beat, Mrs. Miller rattled off a stream of obscenities so fully and completely unexpected that I fell off my chair. Mothers were defiled, and their male and female children, as well as any and all offspring who just happen to’ve been...
Steph Su Reads, October 19, 2009
...kind of readers. Similar Authors Kirstin Cronn-Mills ( The Sky Always Hears Me, and the Hills Don't Mind ) Dale Peck ( Sprout ) Writing: 3/5 Characters: 3/5 Plot: 3/5 Overall Rating: 3 out of 5 Cover discussion: 2 out of 5 - I'm not too keen on it. It's...
Band of Thebes, October 14, 2009
...of writers ignored today includes Lorrie Moore, E.L. Doctorow, Edmund White, Philip Roth, Reynolds Price, Kate Christiansen, Dale Peck, Michael Chabon, Stacey D'Erasmo, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Lethem, Madison Smart Bell, William Vollman, Jonathan Safran...
Chicklish, October 9, 2009
...other books that are available in UK bookshops, though, including If I Stay by Gayle Forman, Sprout by Dale Peck, Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah and What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. More information here. Nominate here. Young...
The Science Creative Quarterly, August 27, 2009
...(Because it’s also the International Year of Astronomy , over the next few weeks, we are happy to present a few reprinted funny pieces that relate to this business of space – Enjoy!) Pedestrian crap. Albert Einstein’s “General Theory of...
Chicklish, August 25, 2009
...Review by Carly Bennett Dale Peck’s latest novel is the story of Sprout, a teenage boy trying to deal with the death of his mother, his alcoholic father and his sexuality in a narrow...
Band of Thebes, June 10, 2009
...to his stellar novels, criticism, two Drift House tales for children, and his recent foray into genre fiction, Dale Peck published his first YA book, Sprout , last week. Library Journal said: "Daniel 'Sprout' Bradford, 16, does a lot of his thinking out...
Pop Culture Junkie, June 6, 2009
...Monday: Sprout by Dale Peck This is my very first Amazon Vine book! It came the week before and I found it when I picked up our mail after being away! Tuesday: A Girl...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, June 1, 2009
...to ship in September. Among the others who've signed on are novelists Lisa Dierbeck , Josh Furst , and Dale Peck and the journalist Choire Sicha , all of whom were aboard the boat—along with Obama's favorite new novelist, Joseph O'Neill , and...
Emerging Writers Network, May 10, 2009
...great news? Don : Thanks, Dan. I was athome, and I’d just finished washing the dishes when Dale Peck called. Like many writers, I have household choresthat I do so I don’t feel quite so guilty about spending most of my timestaring at the wall...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, April 13, 2009
...7pm, critic Walter Benn Michaels , The Wire creator and journalist David Simon (pictured), author Susan Straight , and novelist-critic Dale Peck will debate that question at the New York Public Library. Co-sponsored by Bookforum, the literary...
