TOD WODICKA
Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m.

From his present home in Berlin comes U.S.-born writer Tod Wodicka with his utterly captivating debut novel, All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Pantheon). One could say it's about a man living out life as a medieval re-enactor in upstate New York, but one would then say it's about more, much more, in mysterious and surprising ways. "A rare comic novel, beautifully styled and often very moving, which seems funny almost by accident, as if it just happened to discover the notes of comedy while it went about sounding the depths of its characters." - Kevin Brockmeier. "Boy is it fun to read All Shall Be Well. Traveling through Eastern Europe with Burt Hecker is a little like heading south with Charles Portis's Ray Midge or being holed up in campgrounds with Nabokov's Charles Kinbote—uproarious, wholly odd, wonderfully rendered." - Joshua Ferris.

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