News and Events

Cracks Being Filmed

"Cracks" is finally being filmed in Dublin with Eva Green in the role of Miss G and producers Ridley and Jordan Scott, Christine Vachan, and Rosalee Swedlin.

Grief with Anne Beattie at Skidmore

Grief with Anne Beattie on the 18th July at Skidmore about Sheila's father and also Liam Rector. The essay will appear in Salmagundi.

Teaching at Princeton

Sheila will be teaching in 2008/09 at Princeton.

Article

Sheila will have a featured article called "What Happy Ever After Really Looks Like" in O, The Oprah Magazine.

Upcoming Books

Spring Time:
The Transitional Object: in the O'Henry Price Stories of 2008
A Night at the Grand Hotel: The Ontario Review
"Portrait": in Boulevard
"Symbols": in the American Scholar

Princeton

Sheila will be teaching this year at Princeton 07-08.

Free to Read

Sheila has an article in the current Poets and Writers called Free to Read.

The Transitional Object

"The Transitional Object" in Boulevard has won an O'Henry prize and is now out in the 2008 O'Henry Volume.

Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness

Sheila Kohler's sixth novel, " Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness" will be out in paperback with Berkely in March 08.

Historical novel sold

Sheila's historical novel Bluebird or The Invention of Happiness was sold to Other Press and it is tentatively scheduled to come out in April/May 07. Also stories coming out in Boulevard; Mississipi Review and Ecotone.

Cracks Film Rights

The film rights for Cracks has been optioned by Killer and Working Title Films .