>SmokeLong Quarterly News

>Word is spreading that SmokeLong Quarterly has launched (re-launched?) a NEWS Page on which several writers will be blogging regularly. Looks like something you’re…

>The Bat Segundo Show

>New installments of The Bat Segundo Show have been posted, including interviews with James Lipton, Naomi Wolf, Stephen Pinker, David Michaelis, and Danica McKellar.

>Women in 500 Years of Art

> H/T Kathy, Diane

>New South/GSU Review: Nanking Mansion

>My contributor copies of the current issue of GSU Review arrived a few weeks ago and today I discovered that the magazine, which is…

>Monkeybicycle

>An odd little piece by me went live at Monkeybicycle today: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Wedding

>The New Yorker: "Among Animals and Plants" by Andrei Platonov

>The author, Andrei Platonov, died in 1951 and the contributors’ notes indicates that the “complete text” of “Among Animals and Plants” will be included…

>A Tribute to Grace Paley

>I wish I could attend Pen American Center’s Tribute to Grace Paley on November 6 in New York City. “An Evening of Readings and…

>San Diego Fires/Donate to the Red Cross

>If you are in a position to help, please consider making a contribution to the American Red Cross in the San Diego area. The…

>Best American Mystery Stories 2007

>This was a nice surprise. I found out today that my story “Heading for Home,” which appeared last year in The Baltimore Review, is…

>LitMag Wave: Subtropics No. 4

>Subtropics, the still-new literary magazine out of the University of Florida edited by David Leavitt is already a writers’ favorite. The magazine responds promptly…