Goodies
Here you’ll find David’s most recent writing, interviews, readings, and other tidbits to satisfy your literary sweet tooth.
Possible Happiness goodies!
You can read an excerpt of David’s new novel, Possible Happiness, at Civilian Reader, or watch a short reading on YouTube. (You can also watch it through the embedded image below.) You can also hear more about the book through his interviews with Clifford Garstang and Leslie Pietrzyk. And here’s the cover:
Check out a scene from David's new novel! Possible Happiness is about a loner teen who accidentally unlocks a social life with his sense of humor—but can he unlock meaningful happiness that way, too, or will he first have to face and understand himself? In a starred review, Booklist said this about Possible Happiness: "Ebenbach has written a beautiful coming-of-age novel with a highly empathic, multidimensional character who comes alive on the page. The mood and tone are spot on, contributing to a memorable reading experience."
TikTok!
David posts a series of extremely dubious writing tutorials as well as some legitimate book recommendations on TikTok—check them out! Here’s an example:
Interviews!
Check out David's interview with Leslie Pietrzyk for South 85 Journal, and find out where his new novel's title came from, the highs and lows of the publishing process, his favorite writing advice, and what to eat while reading Possible Happiness! (Heads up: you're going to need a conventional oven.)
Catch other recent interviews:
Audio: the Bookshop Podcast or the Functional Nerds Podcast
Text: Clifford Garstang’s blog, the BlueInk Review, the Civilian Reader, or the Paul Semel blog
Recent Work!
Here you can check out some of David’s most recently published work:
“The Haunting House,” a short story in Weird Horror
“Inside of a Dog, It’s Too Dark to Read,” a short story in the Heavy Feather Review
“The Moon Rabbi,” a short story in Clarkesworld
“Plague City,” “Picking,” “Saturday Morning,” and “Falling,” four poems in Movable Time
“The Poem About Anti-Semitism” and “It Has Been [one] Day Since the Last Synagogue Shooting,” two poems in Minyan
Unboxing videos
Check out video of David unboxing author copies of his new novel, Possible Happiness:
Music Playlists!
As part of Largehearted Boy's Book Notes series, David put together playlists of songs for his most recent books:
The What’s Left to Us by Evening playlist includes Matisyahu, Air, Susumu Yokota, George Winston, and more.
The How to Mars playlist includes David Bowie, Zoe Keating, the B-52s, Elton John, De La Soul, and more.
The Some Unimaginable Animal playlist includes Cab Calloway, How to Destroy Angels, Peter Gabriel, Ferron, A Tribe Called Quest, and more.
Poems on video: Poems on Resilience and Beauty
Check out David’s reading for the Bad Mouth Reading Series, where he shared a handful of poems on resilience and beauty.
You can also click through to hear:
David reading “Basket and Kneading Trough” in honor of the book launch for his collection Some Unimaginable Animal.
David reading “The Poem of Your Father” in honor of Father’s Day,
David reading “The Poem of Your Mother“ in honor of Mother’s Day.
David reading “Passover this Year” in honor of Passover.
Blog Post: The Paradox of the Novel-in-Stories
"I only seem to be interested in trying to write things I don’t know how to write. The hope is that, by the end of whatever project I’m working on, I will have figured it out while also having learned something new. But sometimes even if the project comes out all right, I end up no wiser than before. That’s what it’s been like working in the weird form known as the novel-in-stories."
Read the piece on the AGNI blog.
And check out other recent blog posts:
“Judaism in Space,” Jewish Book Council’s Paper Brigade Daily Blog
“My Favorite Bit: David Ebenbach Talks About How to Mars,” Mary Robinette Kowal Blog
Audio: Listen to the Orgy
David sat down with producer Alfred Schoeninger to record a reading of the title story from his most recent collection The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy.