Does this mean I can stop making Bible jokes?
Despite my extreme blogging torpor of late, it’s been a busy few months here at Roose HQ. Since graduating from college in December and moving to Brooklyn in January, a lot has happened to me:
- I went back to Liberty U. to watch two of my friends – both from Dorm 22 – get married. (Not to each other, mind you.)
- I continued to speak to colleges, churches, and book groups (still booking dates for 2010!) about my experience at Liberty. Most recently, I visited Bristol, Tennessee, home of King College, where I had a great time doing my spiel as part of the Buechner Institute lecture series.
- I wrote about trashy romance novels and college dating sites.
- I narrated the audio version of The Unlikely Disciple, which will be released along with the paperback version in June of this year (not January 2011, as I’d originally reported). Check back here in a few weeks for details about the paperback launch.
And, with apologies for burying the lede…
- I’M WRITING ANOTHER BOOK! The ink on the deal has barely dried, but I’m really excited about the topic, the chance to work with the wonderful folks at Grand Central again, and the opportunity to dive into one more insular, politically powerful subculture my parents can’t stand.
Anyway, I’ll leave the description to Publishers Lunch:
THE UNLIKELY DISCIPLE author Kevin Roose’s CRASH BABIES, an embedded narrative that will follow several first- and second-year Wall Street financiers, examining their hopes, dreams, and schemes, and sketching a nuanced, human portrait of young Wall Street culture in the post-collapse era, to Ben Greenberg at Grand Central, by Kate Lee at ICM (NA).
If you’re surprised that I’m writing about young financiers, well, that makes two of us. Finance is a relatively recent obsession of mine, but I think (and I hope you’ll agree) that it’s high time for an in-depth exploration of young Wall Street culture in the post-collapse era – when being a twenty-something investment banker isn’t exactly fashionable.
I’ll save the rest of my elevator pitch for a later post, but suffice it to say that I’m really excited to dive into this project.
Happy Easter week, y’all.
