Robert Schultz is making author appearances in connection with the publication of We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War. Recently he and coauthor James Shell spoke at the Navy Day celebration, October 13, at the United States Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C. Schultz will deliver the keynote address at the Maritime Symposium, Dossin Great Lakes Maritime Museum in Detroit March 6, 2010. The USS Tambor served as a training sub near Detroit after the war, and its periscope is part of an exhibit at the Dossin museum. Schultz's talk at the Pritzker Military Museum, Chicago, will be simulcast on the world wide web November 7, 10:00 a.m. CST. For details go to www.wewerepirates.us.

"Robert Schultz's first full-length work of nonfiction, We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War, tells the story of World War II in the Pacific through the remarkable experiences of Robert Hunt, torpedoman on the submarine USS Tambor for 12 consecutive war patrols. Hunt was an eyewitness to key events at Wake Island, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Philippines, and Japanese shipping lanes in the Far East. For more information on the book go to http://www.robertschultz.us/nonfiction_wwp.htm or to the Naval Institute Press site at http://www.usni.org/store/index.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=140 ."

Five poems from the work in progress, Ancestral Altars, appear in the Winter 2009 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review, along with artworks by Vietnamese-American artist Binh Danh.  The VQR gallery is available online, with links to Robert Schultz's previous contributions to that journal.

A new poem responding to the art of Binh Danh has been published in the Spring 2009 issue of The Northwest Review , the cover of which features an image by Binh Danh entitled “Battleground #3.” The poem, “Camouflage #1,” is a sestina spoken by a Vietnam War combatant.

Robert Schultz and artist Binh Danh appeared together at the Virginia Festival of the Book in a program entitled “Faces Fleshed in Green.” The event in Charlottesville Saturday March 21st, 2009 was hosted by The Virginia Quarterly Review.

The Madhouse Nudes has been selected as a recommended title for the new Lutheran Writers Book Club, part of the Lutheran Writers Project initiative. And the novel has been issued in a new paperback edition by Simon & Schuster.

“Into the New World,” a poem by Robert Schultz, appeared recently in the Fall 2008 issue of New York Quarterly . That journal has established an impressive online gallery of poets' pages.

“Hardball,” an essay by Robert Schultz, has been reprinted by The Hudson Review in its anthology Writes of Passage (Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2008).