Month: August 2008

August 31, 2008

>The LitMag Game

>If each submission to a literary magazine is like a football game (with the new season getting underway, football is on my mind), then…
August 30, 2008

>American Shakespeare Center

>I just noticed that the American Shakespeare Center has redesigned its website. It looks great. And I also see that they are offering previews…
August 29, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Gorse is Not People" by Janet Frame

>When the magazine publishes a found story by a dead author, I suppose all the rules go out the window. One can’t expect that…
August 29, 2008

>LitMag Wave: Post Road #15

>I picked up the most recent issue of Post Road at Sewanee, directly Mike Rosovsky, one of the fiction editors. Reading it has reminded…
August 29, 2008

>New Issue: The Pedestal Magazine #47

>Check out the new issue and new look of The Pedestal Magazine.
August 26, 2008

>Writers in Waiting, Waiting on Writers

>There’s a fun story from the August 24 edition of The Washington Post about the waiters at Bread Loaf. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
August 25, 2008

>Poetry of Recovery

>You may be interested in this new poetry anthology, AFTER SHOCKS: The Poetry of Recovery, edited by Tom Lombardo. The list of contributors is…
August 25, 2008

>Football

>I thought it would never come, but the 2008 football season is upon us. Northwestern opens agains Syracuse on Saturday, and I’ll be in…
August 25, 2008

>New Issue: Storyglossia #29

>I’m looking forward to reading the August issue of Storyglossia. It looks like a good one!
August 25, 2008

>Somebody Else’s Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage

>It’s fun to read a book by friend. It can be a slight problem if you don’t like the book, but if the book…