Month: September 2008

September 9, 2008

>Man Booker Prize Shortlist

>The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize is something of a surprize because Salman Rushdie is NOT on it. The finalists: Aravind Adiga…
September 7, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Face" by Alice Munro

>This is the third Munro story of the year, the first two being “Free Radicals” and “Deep-Holes.” And for most of this one, I…
September 6, 2008

>New Issue: Per Contra

>The Fall 2008 issue of Per Contra is up!
September 6, 2008

>Fans Queue Hours to Meet Cliff

>Thanks to Google Alerts, I get an email when “Cliff Garstang” pops up on the internet. The alerts aren’t always as directly applicable to…
September 6, 2008

>MFA Program Rankings

>Seth Abramson has a ranking of traditional MFA Programs at The Suburban Ecstasies that some may find interesting. It does NOT include low-residency MFA…
September 4, 2008

>New Issue: Carve

>Check out the new issue of Carve
September 2, 2008

>ASC: Hamlet

>Last night was the fourth time I’ve seen Hamlet at the Blackfriars Playhouse. The first time, before I began this blog, was in 2001…
September 2, 2008

>Writer’s Block

>Lauren Baratz-Logstead writes about this common (or is it?) problem: Writer’s Block: Is it all in your head?. (Wait, isn’t that what Phil Gramm…