Robert Wilder’s essay “The Man on the Stairs” will be featured in WHAT I WOULD TELL HER: 28 DEVOTED DADS ON BRINGING UP: HOLDING ON TO AND LETTING GO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS edited by Nicki Richesin. Click here to order it online. Book comes out May 2010. See EVENTS section to come hear Wilder read from his essay. Here’s a blurb: “Often heartbreaking, sometimes harrowing and consistently hilarious. What I Would Tell Her tells the world about the savagely beautiful bond between fathers and daughters, and it does so without a drop of saccharine or sap. Spectacularly achieved, and fascinating from the very first page.”
–Jason Roberts, author of A Sense of the World

The Morning News honored Wilder and the Santa Fe Reporter by saying “they mattered in 2009″: “The paper can also boast one of the country’s most non-sequitur parenting columns, titled “Daddy Needs a Drink,” in which Daddy, also known as the preternaturally well-coiffed Rob Wilder, ponders buying a trampoline, his son’s mullock (mullet-dreadlock), and, yes, booze, which in a recent entry came in the form of him alone in a New York City bar, sipping on a drink called the Jane Fonda.” Click here for the cool article by Leah Finnegan.

Then, the very hip site, The Awl, voted Wilder their “second favorite columnist” which was not only hella-cool but prompted quite the snaky comments. Click here to check it out.

Check out “Make It a Double”, the December Daddy Needs A Drink column in the Santa Fe Reporter.

On Friday, October 9, 2009, David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle will visit Santa Fe Preparatory School and give a reading at Collected Works Books at 6 pm.

Check out the latest Daddy Needs a Drink column “The Giving Tree” in the Santa Fe Reporter.

Also check out Wilder’s take on yoga in “Dharma or Bust” in Sweat.

Even if you don’t reside in the 505, you can still listen to the “Daddy Needs a Drink” Minute on KBAC-FM by clicking here. The DND minute is on The Big Show With Honey Harris every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 am.

Robert Wilder was the only individual awarded the inaugural Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation. It is a huge honor by a great organization. For more info, click here.

To check out “Animal House”, the latest Daddy Needs a Drink Column click here.

Want to spend a weekend writing with Robert Wilder and literary superhero Natalie Goldberg this summer in a most lovely setting? Click here.

Father’s Day is coming up! Click here for the perfect gift.

Don’t forget that teacher at the end of the year!. Click here; it’s better than a coffee mug!

Starting Monday, December 15, Daddy Needs a Drink will be featured in the Nonfiction category of DearReader.com’s book club. Click here to sign up or just take a peek.

Robert Wilder is the celebrity judge for Hallmark’s Father’s Day card contest. Click here to check it out.

The Teacher Daddy Team has just updated where Wilder will be teaching this spring & summer. Click here to see if he’s close to you & your brood.

Wilder’s latest Daddy Needs a Drink column “Straight Talker” can be viewed here and his interview with MesoAmerican Super Scholar David Carrasco can be viewed here.

Finally, for those of you living in the 505, London Wilder’s new Ghostrider postcard can be purchased at True Believers. Click here for directions.

Teacher Appreciation with Rob Wilder
Sat, August 21 - 11:00am

Celebrate Bookworks’ Teacher Appreciation Day with Santa Fe teacher and author Rob Wilder, who will start off the school year with anecdotes from his bestselling Tales from the Teacher’s Lounge (Delta, $14.00) and a new compilation What I Would Tell Her (Harlequin, $13.95), which collects essays on father/daughter relationships. Teachers will receive 25% off all books including Rob’s between 11am and 1pm.
Location: Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW#Flying Star Plaza
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107-3157
http://www.bkwrks.com/event/wilder

Sanibel Island Writers Conference
November 4-7 2010
Join Rob Wilder, Augusten Burroughs, Walter Kirn, Steve Almond and others!
http://www.fgcu.edu/siwc/

AWP in Denver, Colorado. Thursday, April 8, 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Rooms 102, 104 Colorado Convention Center, Street Level R102. Writing the West: The Transplanted Writer as Literary Outsider. (Summer Wood, Pam Houston, Robert Wilder, Uma Krishnaswami).

Tuesday, April 20. 6:30 p.m. Esther Bone Memorial Library. Rio Rancho, NM. Author Talk.

BADASS MOTHERFATHER TOUR with DIANA JOSEPH, author of I’M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY

Friday, May 14 at 6:00 p.m. Collected Works Bookstore. Santa Fe, NM. More info:

Saturday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m. Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos NM, as a fundraiser for SOMOS.

Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 p.m. Bookworks. Albuquerque, NM.

WHAT WOULD I TELL HER Anthology Events

Wednesday, June 16. Books, Inc. San Francisco, CA.

Friday, June 18. Book Passage. Corte Madera, CA.

June 25-30. Essay Specialist. College Horizons. University of Puget Sound. Tacoma, WA.

July 11-16. Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Taos, NM. Master Memoir Workshop.

November 4-November 7. Sanibel Island Writers Conference. Sanibel Island, FL.

Robert Wilder will be the lunchtime speaker for the 2009 Silent Samaritans Luncheon on Wednesday, September 9 at the Sheraton Uptown. For more info on the Samaritan Counseling Center, click here.

Portland (OR) peeps! Catch Wilder at Wordstock literary festival on Saturday, October 10, at 5:00 pm. Click here for more info.

National Book Awards! Wilder will be a special guest at the National Book Awards this November. Check out his piece on John Cheever for the NBF’s Book a Day Blog here.

Robert Wilder will be on KNME’s “New Mexico In Focus” this Friday August 15 at 7pm with a rebroadcast on Sunday at 6:30 am. KNME is Channel 5 in New Mexico or click here to see the episode on line.

Finally, Robert Wilder will be teaching in Taos, New Mexico, in the summer and Sedona, Arizona, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the fall. Click here to find out more.