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...

13e Note Editions, release date in April. 13e is well known for publishing such great authors as Nelson Algren, Barry Gifford, Charles...

In March, Willy and Dan will be heading across the pond to do a handful of acoustic gigs, including a bunch of shows supporting The...

There’s a great article on Willy & Reno in Sweden’s leading music magazine, SONIC. It’s a really nice (and huge – 8 pages) article with...

The new record, The High Country, is all wrapped up and ready to go. Release dates are: September 5 in the UK & Europe, and September 20...

Willy is absolutely thrilled to have the honor of reading with Roddy Doyle at the Galway Arts Festival on July 19. You can’t have a...

Willy recently contributed a story to a nifty literary magazine, with its most current issue of working class stories, The Ne’er-Do-Well....

Make that two lucky breaks… We are thrilled to announce that on Monday night Willy took home two awards for Lean on Pete: the Ken Kesey...

Keeping busy these days… The trade paperback edition of Lean on Pete recently came out in the UK (Faber) and Willy recorded a special...

Great news… Lean on Pete has been shortlisted for the Oregon Book Award (Ken Kesey Award for Fiction). Literary Arts presents the Oregon...

LEAN ON PETE is popping up on the darnedest Best of 2010 lists.. Eileen Battersby’s Books of the Year (Irish Times) Hot Press #1 Book of...

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association has announced the shortlist for its 2011 awards, and LEAN ON PETE has been selected as one...

Lean on Pete has been chosen as #3 in The Independent’s “50 Best Winter Reads“. The low-down from the judges: ‘An occasionally...

A very kind and hopeful gentleman in England has named a 2-year-old thoroughbred racing colt after Richmond Fontaine. And by God, the...