7/14: Interview in The Baltimore Sun

Jessica Blau (left), Mary McCauley (center), Jen Michalski (right)
JHU Barnes & Noble, 6/14/2013

So cool to open up the weekend edition of The Baltimore Sun and see this profile on my publishing three books this year! Thanks to Mary McCauley for writing the piece and also moderating a great Q&A between me and Jessica Blau at the Johns Hopkins Barnes & Noble. Her questions were original and thought-provoking and enabled an in-depth, accessible discussion on craft. (And also thanks to writer Betsy Boyd for the pic!)

6/4/2013: First review of The Tide King!

The first review of The Tide King is out, slightly ahead of the book! (As I understand, it's being printed as I write!) Anyway, writer Rosalia Scalia had some really nice things to say about it:

...Michalski creates a tale that sweeps history by marrying icons of childhood nightmares such as witches, magic, and children struggling on their own to the icons of adult nightmares: war battles, socially sanctioned violence and murder, success and failure in love, success and failure in connecting meaningfully with others, and the mind-numbing, soul-sucking daily grind.
In short, this book about the passing of time will make you impatient to discover what happens next. The other joy sparked by this book is recognizing familiar locales in Baltimore and Fells Point. They provide an extra treat, a view of the familiar through the eyes of an east Baltimore boy, Stanley Polensky, and thereby through the eyes of one of the city’s most gifted scribes.

To read more, go here.


If you'd like to read The Tide King for yourself, I will be reading at HearArts in Rockville on Thursday, June 6th, 7 pm. Jazz will be provided by Night Moves.