Month: January 2008

January 13, 2008

>"Leviathan" in R.KV.R.Y

>It was my very first story acceptance and the second to appear in print when it came out in North Dakota Quarterly in 2004….
January 12, 2008

>Getting Real about Rejection Letters

>Kelly Spitzer has begun a new series on her website, along with Ellen Parker, editor of FRiGG: Get Real: Writers and Editors discuss the…
January 12, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Wakefield" by E.L. Doctorow

>I feel almost as sorry for Doctorow as I do for Updike. (I guess this is not going to be the “Year of the…
January 10, 2008

>The Writer’s Life

>Check out this realistic short film by Roger Morris: The Writer’s Life. That’s how it goes some days.
January 9, 2008

>Review Americana

>Review Americana, published by the Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, is a new-to-me magazine that looks very good. I’ve read some…
January 9, 2008

>Banned Books

>Somehow I missed Banned Books Week 2007, but I’ll try to make up for it with this post. Check out the American Library Association‘s…
January 8, 2008

>Literature vs. Capitalism

>In the February 2008 issue of Harpers, Ursula LeGuin takes on the corporate publishers and bookstore chains (“Staying Awake: Notes on the alledged decline…
January 5, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Outage" by John Updike

>Don’t you kind of feel sorry for John Updike? I mean, he writes a story and how many places can he publish it? I’ve…
January 5, 2008

>The Year of a Million Words

>Huh? There’s this guy – a Kiwi in Scotland by the name of Craig Cliff – who plans to write One Million words in…
January 5, 2008

>Congratulations, it’s a F-log!

>The folks at Fence were kind enough to let me know that they’ve added a LitMagBlog feature to their website. It looks like they’re…