Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, 8 July, noon - Book Talk, An Apartment in Paris, Mount Horeb Rotary Club, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Monday, 13 July, 11:15 am - Book Talk, An Apartment in Paris, Verona Community Center, 108 Paoli Street, Verona, Wisconsin
Tuesday, 14 July, 7 pm - A Dialog on Writing with Dave Wood, Whitehall Public Library, 18560 Scranton Street, Whitehall, Wisconsin.
Videos:
“GabTalk” with Gabby Olczak
Gabby Olczak, co-founder of the Independent Press Association (IPA) and the vivacious hostess of her “GabTalk” videos has done a series of interviews with Last Kid Books author David Benjamin.
NEW from Last Kid Books:
Upstairs
Sixth in the Award-Winning Jim Otis Smalltown Crime Series!
There’s a curse on the Kuckuck building.
It’s been abandoned for more than a decade. It’s boarded up and slated for demolition. In other words, it’s a magnet for kids to break, enter, climb the stairs and explore. Which is exactly what Riley Hawkins, grade-school bully, decides to do …
… Until the building strikes back!
Benjamin at BookCamp
July 2024 •
“GabTalk” with Gabby Olczak
At the Independent Press Awards “BookCamp” this year, the IPA’s vivacious Gabby Olczak chatted with David Benjamin about Cheat (Mystery), one of Benjamin’s four 2024 Distinguished Favorite award-winning books, including The Voice of the Dog (Crime Fiction), The Melting Grandmother and Other Short Works (Short Stories) and Bistro Nights (Literary Fiction). These honors increased the total number of literary awards garnered by Last Kid Books to 46, since its 2019 launch.
Here’s Benjamin, holding his haul of medals, with Book Camp impresario Ted Olczak. Click to view Benjamin’s “GabTalk” conversation.
Last Kid News:
My monthly go-everywhere, reach-everyone press release, on which I collaborate with the marcom wizards at Boundless Media, highlights my newest Paris-based book, An Apartment in Paris. Unlike its fictional predecessors—Three’s a Crowd, Skulduggery in the Latin Quarter and Bistro Nights, this one is mostly true. So far, An Apartment in Paris has received six literary awards from independent publishing organizations. You can buy a copy of all four books on this site.
Here’s the pitch:
David Benjamin’s Riveting Book Reveals What It Really Takes to Find a Home—and a Life—in Paris
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Boundless Media
The author’s popular Paris-centered book talks offer audiences an intimate look at the city’s hidden corners, characters, culture, food, and enduring romance
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, July 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/
Paris has inspired generations of writers, artists, travellers, and romantics. The city and surrounding region welcomed more than 36 million tourists in 2024, highlighting its enduring appeal as one of the world's most beloved destinations. For author David Benjamin, however, the City of Light is more than a dream destination. It is a place he and his wife, artist Junko Yoshida, have explored, experienced, and ultimately made part of their lives.
“Paris is an amazing place to see, live, and visit. I had so many wonderful experiences while there, and I wanted to share some of that with my audience. My writing about Paris is about capturing the spirit of the city—the people, the food, the history, the architecture, and those unexpected moments that make Paris so unforgettable,” Benjamin explains. “An Apartment in Paris reflects that personal experience and gives readers a glimpse into what it is really like to fall in love with a city and find a place for yourself within it.”
That connection to Paris is at the heart of Benjamin's latest book, An Apartment in Paris, a deeply personal account of his and Yoshida's journey to establish a foothold, or pied-à-terre, in the French capital.
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Last Kid Books
is a publishing house with a sense of humor. Dedicated — at its outset — to publishing the works of prolific storyteller David Benjamin, LKB embodies Benjamin’s wry wit and narrative adventurousness.
Last Kid Books takes its name from David Benjamin’s beloved Midwestern coming-of-age story, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked (published by Random House in 2002). Benjamin is also author of SUMO: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to Japan’s National Sport, a Charles E. Tuttle title, revised in 2010, that has been in print since 1990. Two previous Benjamin novels, Three’s A Crowd (a noir comedy) and A Sunday Kind of Love (a football romance), have been added to the Last Kid Books imprint, as well as Black Dragon, released in July 2019.
David Benjamin is a novelist, journalist, provocateur and habitual humorist who has lived his life — occasionally to his chagrin — by the words of Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jimenez: “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
Last Kid Books is Benjie’s showcase.
