News & Appearances

Coming Events

Steve will be presenting “My Father’s Heart” at the National Council of Teachers of English national convention in Philadelphia, on Saturday, November 21, as a guest of the “Pennsylvania Showcase: Coming Home Again” series sponsored by PCTELA, the Pennsylvania chapter of the NCTE. As many as 7,000 teachers and language-arts educators are expected at the four-day convention in the City of Brotherly Love. Steve’s session is F.58, Saturday, 8 a.m., Room 107B

Recent Events

On Sunday October 18, after the 11:15 a.m. Mass, Steve discussed “My Fathers Heart” as a guest of the monthly book club of the Oratory Church of Saint Boniface in Brooklyn, hosted by the Very Rev. Fr. Dennis  M. Corrado, C.O.,  Provost, Breukelein Institute.  Twenty-five book-club members participated in spirited conversation. Steve, who growing up was a member of St. Joseph Parish in York, Pennsylvania (much written of  in “My Father’s Heart”!), has been a member of the Oratory for 15 years.

Steve returned home to York, Pennsylvania, the setting for much of MY FATHER’S HEART, to appear on a pair of television shows, “Medically Speaking” on WRCT, and “American Visions” on WGCB-TV.

The “Highlights for Parents” Web page of “Highlights for Children” interviewed Steve along with three other Dads about their lives as fathers.

Steve spoke about MY FATHER’S HEART, and about his experiences coping with heart disease, as a featured speaker during the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association national convention in Dallas in April.

The York Daily Record excerpted a short section of MY FATHER’S HEART about the time Steve and his C.Y.O. basketball team took a shower with the great Baltimore Colts of the 1960s!

Steve was also in York in March to speak to health-care providers gathered at the Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center.

Steve was the keynote speaker at at the 26th annual black-tie fund-raising gala for the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. The event, attended by nearly 700 people, raised $700,000 for cardiovascular research and education. Steve combined a reading of excerpts from the final chapter of MY FATHER’S HEART — the night Steve watched his father die of a heart attack — with reflections of growing up under the specter of heart disease.

Steve was back in York as a featured speaker at the “Go Series” at York’s Martin Library. Appropriately, the theme was “Go Back to Your Future.” Steve read excerpts from MY FATHER’S HEART about how he came to grow up in York and invited audience members to share their experiences of growing up in York as well.

Steve was a guest speaker in the new “Men’s Zone” of the Women’s Health Expo at Tech City in Kingston, New York. He spoke about his legacy of heart disease and gave a demonstration of the Concept2 Rowing Machine, which he writes about in “My Father’s Heart.”

Steve in the Media

Steve was a guest on the TODAY Show. You can see the video here. Read about the tie — yes, the tie!– Steve wore on the Today show

My Father’s Heart was interviewed by Scott Simon of Morning Edition

Steve was a guest on the Diane Rehm Show. Read more about it and listen to the episode.

Listen to an interview Steve did with Kate Sullivan of Wordsmitten — for “the people, the books, and the business of writing & publishing.”

Cardiologist Mehmet Oz on the Oprah & Friends Radio Network recently talked with Steve about his father’s heart. The interview aired on February 19.

Steve participated in a reading as part of the Varsity Letters Reading Series at the Happy Ending bar & grill in New York City. Steve was also featured in the VL’s online publication, Gelf magazine, where he talked about how “My Father’s Heart” came to life.

My Father’s Heart was excerpted in the Washington Post.