Month: April 2007

April 12, 2007

>Man Booker International Prize

>This year’s “contenders” for the prestigious, yet new (this is the second year), Man Booker International Prize are: Chinua AchebeMargaret AtwoodJohn BanvillePeter CareyDon DeLilloCarlos…
April 12, 2007

>Miranda July

>I don’t know anything at all about this author, other than she’s got a very clever promotional site for her new book: No One…
April 12, 2007

>Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

>News of Kurt Vonnegut‘s death comes this morning. Having grown up in Indiana, Vonnegut’s home state, I’ve always felt a kinship to him. I…
April 11, 2007

>National Award for Arts Writing

>I received this press release today from the Arts Club of Washington today. It looks like an amazing new award and the finalists sound…
April 10, 2007

>LitMag Wave: The Kenyon Review

>I’m hopelessly–no, seriously, I mean hopelessly–behind in my reading. Of all things. News magazines, catalogs, literary journals, books, tea leaves. I’ll never, ever catch…
April 9, 2007

>EWN Declares SSM

>April, apart from being the cruelest month, is also Poetry month. But Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network has decided that short stories need…
April 8, 2007

>Mistake Number 11

> Don’t Forget Stimulus and Response. Things happen for a reason. People act for a reason. If they do something its because there was…
April 7, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Still-Life" by Don DeLillo

>Lianne and Keith have been separated for a year and a half when the World Trade Center, where Keith works, is attacked. He has…
April 5, 2007

>The Big Read

>I’m all in favor of promoting literacy, so I’m glad that Virginia is pushing its Big Read, although if it weren’t for Charlottesville Words…
April 3, 2007

>Distractions

>With Spring come all the outdoor distractions–yard work, both the pleasurable and the necessary (I mowed the lawn today, the earliest since I’ve lived…
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