Month: October 2008

October 31, 2008

>New Issue: Waccamaw Journal

>Issue No. 2 of Waccamaw Journal is now live and from what I’ve read so far it looks great!
October 31, 2008

>The Golden Notebook Project

>I received an email today about an interesting undertaking: a close reading of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook along with a conversation among seven…
October 30, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Fat Man’s Race" by Louise Erdrich

>I assume that this story is included in honor of Halloween, since it does feature the Devil as one of its characters. Sort of….
October 28, 2008

>Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

>I had some good news last week. I learned that I’ve been awarded a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts…
October 28, 2008

>The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn

>The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn is one of those rare story collections that doesn’t allow the reader to take…
October 27, 2008

>Dear One Story: You’re not helping!

>One of the things I have been emphasizing with my students (I teach freshman composition in a community college) is noun-pronoun agreement. The rule…
October 27, 2008

>Folly Mills Creek–Autumn

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October 27, 2008

>More deer, more beavers

>Starting with the beavers: it’s a little hard to see the dam in this picture, but it’s there, cutting across the middle of the…
October 25, 2008

>REAL

>I just received my contributor’s copies of REAL (Regarding Arts and Letters) 33.1 which includes my story “House of the Ancients.” The story is…
October 24, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The BoyWho Had Never Seen the Sea” by J. M. G. Le Clézio

>This story by the recent Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio is NOT online so you’ll either have to find a copy of the magazine…