Thanks to everyone who voted for The Free for the Oregon Book Awards Readers Choice Award! Willy was thrilled to win the award and is so...

The Free is a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction! The Oregon Book Awards are presented each spring by Literary Arts. Finalists...

Sorry it’s been a while since we updated the site… Willy has been busy touring with The Delines and working on novel #5. We are very...

Willy has been working on a new project with singer Amy Boone (The Damnations TX), Sean Oldham (Richmond Fontaine), Jenny Conlee-Drizos...

The Motel Life is opening in US theaters today, as is now available on iTunes and VOD. So far the reception among reviewers has been...

The good folks at Harper Perennial are publishing a movie tie in version of The Motel Life. It’s a great looking book! The cover features...

Check out the trailer for The Motel Life, featuring the amazing animation of Mike Smith. The film will be in theaters November 8 in New...

Finally, some exciting news about the film version of Willy’s first novel, The Motel Life, starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Dakota...

Come on down to Secret Society on Monday, March 11 to see Willy in a rare solo performance opening up for Rick Bass and Stellarondo. As...

Great news from the Rome International Film Festival! The Motel Life made an impressive showing, taking home the Audience Choice Award as...

We just came across a great article in The Village Voice about musicians who also write “damn fine” fictional prose. Apparently Willy’s...

For those of you wondering what’s going on with the movie version of Willy’s first novel, The Motel Life… there is news. And it is good....

Willy is happy to announce two readings with his great pal Jonathan Evison. Johnny has a tremendous new novel, The Revised Fundamentals...

Check out the column George Pelecanos wrote for “The Vulture Diaries” – a daily catalog of his cultural consumption – which features...

The 10 finalists for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award were announced this morning, and Lean on Pete made the cut...

Lean on Pete is on the longlist for the Dioraphte Jongeren Literatuurprijs, a prize for the best young adult book of 2011 in Holland...