Month: February 2007

February 12, 2007

>Sewanee Writers’ Conference

>If you’re looking for a writers’ conference for this summer, you can’t do better than the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, which this year will be…
February 12, 2007

>The Welsh Girl, by Peter Ho Davies

>The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies is a beautiful book, intricate in its way, and deftly rendered character study. Set in Wales during…
February 11, 2007

>Pericles, Prince of Tyre at ASC

>Shakespeare is back. Actually, he’s been back for a several weeks (after the season of holiday shows, A Christmas Carol and Santaland Diaries), but…
February 10, 2007

>LitMag Wave: Harpur Palate

>Issue 6.2 of Harpur Palate isn’t the strongest I’ve seen, but there are some enjoyable stories here, including T.J. Forrester’s “Revolving Door,” which I…
February 9, 2007

>The New Yorker: "A Tranquil Star" by Primo Levi

>Is it the intention of the TNY to publish a Primo Levi story every month this year? That’s what they’ve done so far and,…
February 9, 2007

>LitMag Wave: One Story #77

>One Story No. 77 is “Prayer for the Long Life of Certain Inanimate Objects” by Paul Maliszewski. On the surface, the story is unique….
February 8, 2007

>Literary Magazine Blogs

>As if I weren’t already way behind in reading the stacks of novels and story collections I’ve acquired recently (in, say, the last decade…
February 8, 2007

>LitMag Wave: Southwest Review

>Issue 92, No. 1 of the Southwest Review recently arrived in my mailbox. I was pleased to see that my friend Chris Gavaler had…
February 8, 2007

>Boldtype #40

>The latest issue of Boldtype is live. Check it out.
February 5, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Good People" by David Foster Wallace

>Lane and Sheri have met at Peoria Junior College, in campus ministries. He studies business and she studies nursing and mostly what they do…