Month: January 2007

January 31, 2007

>LitMag Wave: Red Rock Review #18

> Although I’d heard of Red Rock Review and even submitted a story there a few years ago, the Winter 2006 issue is the…
January 31, 2007

>Security Concerns for Elif Shafak

>In light of my recent glowing comments about Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul, I thought this article from Publishers Weekly might be of…
January 29, 2007

>The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

>“Family stories intermingle in such ways that what happened generations ago can have an impact on seemingly irrelevant developments of the present day. The…
January 28, 2007

>The New Yorker: “Cell One” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

>The narrator’s brother, Nnamabia, gets into petty trouble, including faking a robbery of the family home so he can pawn his mother’s jewelry. The…
January 26, 2007

>Alternate Publishing Routes

>I don’t know about you, but I learn a lot by reading Publishers’ Lunch from Publishers Marketplace. Today, for example, I learned of two…
January 26, 2007

>Simbiosis

>One of the pleasures of my recent stay in Mexico was the Bed & Breakfast where I stayed in Tepoztlan: Los Golondrinas. While its…
January 25, 2007

>The Napkin Project

>Word is spreading about Esquire Magazine’s Napkin Project in which a large number of authors were sent napkins and asked to write stories on…
January 25, 2007

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>It’s coming! This year’s Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville is March 21-25 and, as usual, there’s quite a schedule. Here is a…
January 25, 2007

>Mistake Number 7

> Don’t Use Real People in Your Story. Fair enough. Real people are boring: “Good characters have to be constructed, not copied from actuality.”…
January 24, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Heirs" by Amos Oz

>Was something lost in translation? Aryeh Zelnik is relaxing on the porch of his mother’s bucolic home when Wolf Maftzir, a fast-talking lawyer, shows…
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