Month: June 2007

June 20, 2007

>Congratulations Susan Meyers!

>SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) yesterday announced the winners of the 2007 SIBA Awards and I am thrilled that Susan Myers’s book Keep and…
June 20, 2007

>Eureka!

>Eureka Literary Magazine, that is. I’m very fond of this magazine, one of the first to publish my work. At the time, they didn’t…
June 19, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Sweetheart Sorrow" by David Hoon Kim

>Set in Paris, the narrator is concerned about Fumiko, another foreign student. He, it turns out, was born in Japan but was adopted as…
June 18, 2007

>Rain Taxi

>Are you familiar with Rain Taxi? You’re a book lover, right? So you should be. The magazine is quarterly in both print and, with…
June 18, 2007

>Ploughshares News

>I heard a couple of days ago from a usually reliable source that Don Lee, longtime (like 18 years?) editor of Ploughshares is leaving…
June 17, 2007

>The New Yorker: "1966" by Denis Johnson

>I don’t think I get Denis Johnson. I’ve read some of his work and other people rave, but I’m generally not satisfied. Here we…
June 15, 2007

>Tinker Mountain Day 5

>The last day began early as we convened at the Moody Center to caravan up to the Potts Mountain Shooting range. I totally believe…
June 14, 2007

>Tinker Mountain Day 4

>The Wednesday night reading (Hal Ackerman, Pinckney Benedict and Dan Mueller) was terrific. Both Dan and Pinckney read new things and Hal, a screenwriter,…
June 13, 2007

>Tinker Mountain: Day 3

>Tuesday night’s reading was a “student reading” in the “Green Parlor” of one of Hollins’s grand old buildings in the center of campus. Fifteen…
June 12, 2007

>Tinker Mountain: Day 2

>The reading last night. Thorpe Moeckel read several new poems, from his book that is due out later this year, and also several from…
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