“Writing the City”: Novelist S.J. Rozan visits Oakland University
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009
Oakland University

Award-winning fiction writer S.J. Rozan will begin her book tour for her new novel, “Shanghai Moon,” at Oakland University with a presentation called “Writing the City” and a reading of her fiction from 4-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

The event will take place in the Oakland Room of the Oakland Center and is free and open to the public. The reading will be followed by a question-and-answer session and book signing.

“Shanghai Moon,” her third novel, will be in bookstores in February. Rozan’s other two novels, “Absent Friends” and “In This Rain,” constitute only a portion of her work. She is also is the author of nine books in the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series and is the editor of Bronx Noir, an anthology comprised of stories about her native New York neighborhood, the Bronx. Her critically acclaimed stories and novels have won most of the greatest honors of crime fiction, including the Anthony, Edgar, Macavity, Nero and Shamus awards.

Rozan will illustrate the way the city provides significant context or framework for the plot as she reads selections from several of her books. As a former architect of many years, she possesses an expertise that makes her an extraordinary, now full-time writer of cities.