Our Very First Contest: N.M. Kelby's Whale Season

Ever since N.M. Kelby's latest novel, Whale Season, showed up at our maildrop last week, Mrs. Beatrice has been reading it on the subway to and from work and telling me how great it is—and since the one paragraph she let me read to understand why she was giggling was pretty darn funny, I really can't wait until I get my crack at the book!

Now, as it happens, the day after Whale Season is officially released, the Westport Country Playhouse will host a Selected Shorts evening in which Joanne Woodward will read "Jubilation, Florida," a story Kelby published in One Story (and which I've heard Patricia Kalember read, and it's pretty amazing). To celebrate the two occasions, we're having ourselves a little giveaway!

[At which point I invited people to email me and receive the following:

• two passes to the Selected Shorts show at Westport
• a copy of Whale Season with an autographed bookplate
• a signed copy of the "Jubilation, Florida" issue of One Story

Congratulations to those of you who won—I'll probably do something like this again soon!]