Month: May 2007

May 7, 2007

>Herb’s Pajamas, by Abigail Thomas

>Most writers I know are fans of Abigail Thomas. I know I have been since I read her creative non-fiction book, Safekeeping, a few…
May 6, 2007

>The New Yorker: "One Minus One" by Colm Tóibín

>An Irishman in Texas, alone, wants to reach out to his former lover but feels he can’t. He recalls the time six years earlier…
May 5, 2007

>The Language of Elk, by Benjamin Percy

>More Short Story Month: The Language of Elk by Benjamin Percy is another fine collection, at its strongest when and beast confront one another….
May 5, 2007

>Adventures in Screenwriting

>I’ve just started work on a screenplay. (!) I’ve been planning to do this for some time and even acquired the Final Draft software…
May 5, 2007

>Short Story Month (continued)

>Short Story Month continues, despite the rain. I began this effort (begun by Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network) with a plan to discuss…
May 5, 2007

>the hub

>Check out the hub, a new online literary quarterly associated with the Boston Fiction Festival.
May 4, 2007

>SIBA Book Award Finalists

>Congratulations to the finalists for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Awards, especially my friend Susan Meyers, whose book Keep and Give Away is…
May 3, 2007

>The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, by Randy F. Nelson

>Today’s Short Story Month selection is Randy F. Nelson’s collection, The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award last year…
May 3, 2007

>Here and Somewhere Else, by Grace Paley and Robert Nichols

>Today’s selection is quite different from yesterday’s. This is no debut, for one thing. In fact most (if not all) of the content (mostly…
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