Month: August 2007

August 30, 2007

>After This by Alice McDermott

>I heard Alice McDermott read from this book before it was published, at Sewanee in the summer of 2006. I’d read a couple of…
August 29, 2007

>The Bat Segundo Show

>Several new installments of The Bat Segundo Show are up, including a visit with William Gibson.
August 25, 2007

>Rating Rejections

>No question about it: rejection sucks. But it’s part of the process every writer, even established writers, must go through. You send your work…
August 24, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Nawabdin Electrician" by Daniyal Mueenuddin

>This isn’t a story I recommend, except for the fact that it is set in Pakistan and you don’t see many such stories. Here,…
August 23, 2007

>Failbetter.com #24

>The new issue of Failbetter.com is up, with work from Jeffrey Lent, Daniel Alarcon and others. Definitely looks promising.
August 23, 2007

>Grace Paley

>I am very saddened to learn of the death of Grace Paley, a terrific writer of fiction, poetry and essays, but also one of…
August 22, 2007

>Opium Magazine

> Opium Magazine has announced the finalists in the 500-Word Memoir Contest and somehow I slipped into the group without anyone noticing. The winner…
August 22, 2007

>Best of the Web Series by Dzanc Books

>Dzanc Books continues to exite us. I somehow missed this announcement when it was first made, but in any case I’ve just learned that…
August 21, 2007

>Goodsearch.com

>Thanks to Dan Wickett of Emerging Writers Network and Dzanc Books, I’m now aware of Goodsearch.com, a search tool from Yahoo that contributes money…
August 20, 2007

>Interview with Francine Prose

>I’ve said it before, but AWP’s Writer’s Chronicle is the best writer’s magazine I’ve seen. It usually has in depth interviews with literary writers…
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