Background
Tom Barbash was born in New York, New York, United States. He is the son of a labor lawyer. Tom was raised in Manhattan.
370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, United States
In 1983 Tom Barbash received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College.
21 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Tom Barbash holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
2014
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Acclaimed American writer Tom Barbash, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his new book entitled Stay Up With Me. Photo by Colin McPherson
2019
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
American writer Tom Barbash attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 22, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo by Roberto Ricciuti
2019
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
American writer Tom Barbash attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 22, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo by Roberto Ricciuti
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash
2014
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Acclaimed American writer Tom Barbash, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his new book entitled Stay Up With Me. Photo by Colin McPherson
2019
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
American writer Tom Barbash attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 22, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo by Roberto Ricciuti
2019
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
American writer Tom Barbash attends a photocall during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 on August 22, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo by Roberto Ricciuti
370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, United States
In 1983 Tom Barbash received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College.
21 N Clinton St, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Tom Barbash holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash
(In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to re...)
In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront into a tasteful commercial development for tourists and yuppies, the town of Lakeland quickly gets on board. At first glance, Jack seems to have it all: a successful urban planner, he’s also brought home his fiancée, Anne, a talented artist with whom he’s fiercely in love. But it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in Jack’s idyllic life Enter Steven Turner – exiled New Yorker, local reporter looking for a scoop, and Jack’s best friend in Lakeland. Between the two of them come Anne, who Steven grows close to, and Jack’s floundering brother Harris, who spends his nights breaking the law to bury the mistakes of the past that might derail Jack’s plans. As Steven’s personal and professional incursion into Jack’s life intensifies, all four characters find themselves starting to unravel. Moving, poignant, and rife with humor, The Last Good Chance is a powerful debut novel about the moral compromises we make in the name of loyalty, ambition, and love.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Good-Chance-Novel/dp/0062355317/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Last+Good+Chance+Tom+Barbash&qid=1595512460&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Canto...)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Cantor Fitzgerald's 1,000 New York employees were at their desks on the top floors of One World Trade Center when a hijacked passenger plane struck eight floors below. None survived. On Top of the World tells the story not only of that tragic day but also of the complicated and emotionally charged events that followed. It is an intimate, often harrowing look at how private families processed a public atrocity, how corporate war-room strategy sessions saved the company from liquidation and the efforts of opportunistic competitors. This book examines the media scrutiny that followed Howard Lutnick, who struggled to be at once the compassionate leader the grieving families needed and the tough-minded CEO his decimated company required. It also tells the story of the men and women of Cantor whose lost coworkers were relatives and friends, and brothers and sisters. That Cantor's business has survived and even flourished - and that an initially uneasy but ultimately significant covenant has been formed between those who lived and the families of their lost friends - is a powerful testament to the ability of a community to endure.
https://www.amazon.com/Top-World-Fitzgerald-Lutnick-Renewal/dp/0060510307/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=On+Top+of+the+World+Tom+Barbash&qid=1595512600&s=books&sr=1-1
2003
(The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative colle...)
The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. "Somebody's Son" tells the story of a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks, and the narrator in "The Women" watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene, as he struggles to find his own footing in life.
https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Up-Me-Tom-Barbash-ebook/dp/B00BATNLPQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Stay+Up+With+Me+Tom+Barbash&qid=1595512791&s=books&sr=1-1
2013
(An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters...)
An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics, to the Hollywood Hills, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson, Ted and Joan Kennedy, and a seagoing John Lennon. But the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention, the more he questions his own path, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant, The Dakota Winters is a family saga, a page-turning social novel, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large.
https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Barbash-ebook/dp/B077M4HJ2C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Dakota+Winters%3A+A+Novel+Tom+Barbash&qid=1595513247&s=books&sr=1-1
2018
Tom Barbash was born in New York, New York, United States. He is the son of a labor lawyer. Tom was raised in Manhattan.
In 1983 Tom Barbash received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Haverford College. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.
Tom Barbash worked as a reporter for New York’s Syracuse Post Standard in Oswego, a town similar to the fictional upper-New-York-state community of Lakeland, featured in his award-winning first novel, The Last Good Chance (2002). One of the novel’s main characters is Steve Turner. The other protagonist in the novel is Jack Lambeau, a young man who left the small town of Lakeland, received a solid education, and then went to New York City where he established his profession as a municipal planner. Jack returns to Lakeland with a dream of revitalizing his hometown. Dreams, however, are not always as easily reproduced in reality as they are on paper, a fact Jack soon discovers.
Barbash turned away from fiction for his second book, On Top of the World (2003), and focused on the events and consequences of an American catastrophe. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, caused more damage and loss of life to one particular company than to any other. That company was Cantor Fitzgerald, a bond-trading firm lead by Howard Lutnick, who had taken his new company to the top of Wall Street by the time he turned thirty; but that was before the attacks. On September 11, Cantor Fitzgerald lost nearly seven hundred employees when the WTC buildings collapsed. The only members to survive were those that had not shown up to work that day, including Lutnick himself, who had taken the time to drive his son to his first day of kindergarten.
Barbash has published the short story collection Stay Up With Me (2013), which was a national bestseller, and The Dakota Winters (2018). His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, McSweeney’s, VQR, and other publications, and have been performed on National Public Radio for their Selected Shorts Series.
(In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to re...)
2002(An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters...)
2018(On the morning of September 11, 2001, nearly 700 of Canto...)
2003(The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative colle...)
2013Tom Barbash counts Tobias Wolff as a major influence. He met Wolff in Syracuse.
Tom Barbash is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Tom Barbash is married to Hilary Beggs, a neurobiologist. They have a son.
