Month: August 2008

August 16, 2008

>Florida by Christine Schutt

>Christine Schutt’s Florida is an impressive work. It is a deep, but impressionistic, portrait of a complex family, with extraordinary glimpses into the mind…
August 16, 2008

>A Completely Serious Depiction of the Writing-Publishing Process

> H/T Ellen Meister
August 14, 2008

>Low Rent Magazine

>Low Rent is a new-to-me magazine that looks like it’s worth watching.
August 13, 2008

>New Issue: Six Little Things #11

>Banned for Life.
August 13, 2008

>The Family by Jeff Sharlet

>Until I learned of this book, The Family, by Jeff Sharlet, I was not aware of the organization Sharlet writes about. I knew there…
August 13, 2008

>Ploughshares

>According to Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network, Ploughshares has selected Ladette Randolph as the new Editor-in-Chief, a position that has been vacant since…
August 10, 2008

>LitMag Wave: Fourteen Hills #14.2

>Writers hear all the time that they should read a magazine before submitting work to it, and most of us recognize that this is…
August 9, 2008

>ASC: Measure for Measure

>Measure for Measure may not end in quite the way you remember. In some productions, Isabella rejects the Duke; in some, she accepts his…
August 8, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris

>How about that? I actually like the story this week. I don’t know that it’s great, mind you, and I think the end could…
August 8, 2008

>8/8/8

>Happy prosperity day! (The Chinese word for eight–ba–is similar to the word for wealth or prosper–fa–and so the number 8 is considered lucky ….