Ten Thousand Saints is getting a face lift! Ecco is releasing the third paperback edition of Eleanor’s first novel in coordination with the release of The Twelve-Mile Straight on September 12th. Like The Twelve-Mile Straight, this one’s illustrated by the talented Sara Wood.

Just back from trips to the West and the South to meet with awesome indie booksellers, like these lovely folks at the Durham Hotel in North Carolina. Can’t wait to come back and read in the fall!

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I talked to Vulture about Atari, legwarmers, and “That ’80s Show.”

You can now listen to Eleanor’s panel on book-to-movie adaptations with the wonderful Stephen Elliott, Jennifer Gilmore, Jenny Halper, and Cheryl Strayed on the AWP Podcast Series.

Ten Thousand Saints is out on DVD today! You can buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray, or if you prefer your movies electronic, you can also buy or rent it via instant video here.

Eleanor talks to AOL Build with screenwriter/directors Bob Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman about straight edge, Citibikes, squatting, CBGB, super 16, and more.

Cities announced! Ten Thousand Saints will play in NYC, LA, Salt Lake City, Amherst, and Ithaca the week of August 14th, and in DC, Chicago, Santa Fe, Dallas, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Houston, Denver, Detroit, Atlanta, Tampa, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Columbus, San Diego, and West Palm Beach the week of August 20th. Each run may be only a week long, so see it while you can! Hopefully more cities to be announced soon. Otherwise available on demand through iTunes + more.

 

 

“Smart, sensitive, and accessible to both young and middle-aged viewers, it has plenty of theatrical potential.” —The Hollywood Reporter

Katie Walsh, writing for The Playlist on Indiewire, calls the adaptation of Ten Thousand Saints “an instant winner.”

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve sold my second novel, half-finished, to Ecco Books, the publisher of Ten Thousand Saints.

Here’s the Publishers Marketplace announcement:

Author of TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, adapted for the film that just debuted at Sundance, and Ithaca College professor Eleanor Henderson’s THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT, an American epic about race, inequality, and heredity, set in rural Georgia during the years of Prohibition and the Great Depression, concerning the family of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery, to Megan Lynch at Ecco, in a major deal, by Jim Rutman of Sterling Lord Literistic.