Month: November 2008

November 21, 2008

>Taubman Museum of Art

>Last Saturday I had the pleasure of visiting the brand new Taubman Museum of Art in downtown Roanoke. Our group got a guided tour…
November 21, 2008

>Black Friday

>We have read your submission carefully and regret that we do not have a place for it in [the magazine] at this time. Thank…
November 21, 2008

>National Book Award Winners!

>The National Book Award Winners have been announced: Fiction: Peter Matthiessen’s Shadow Country Poetry: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire Non-fiction: Annette Godon-Reed’s The Hemingses…
November 21, 2008

>The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter

>I have just finished reading The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter, winner of last year’s Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction,…
November 20, 2008

>New Magazine: College Hill Review

>The first issue of a brand new online magazine has just gone live: College Hill Review. (One of the essays is by me–Competition is…
November 19, 2008

>The Bookshelf Muse

>I’m posting this partly as a reminder to myself to spend some time browsing through this blog that seems to have a lot of…
November 18, 2008

>The Review Review

>Getting good information about literary magazines is a challenge. Duotrope.com is an amazing index, with links to submission information, but nothing evaluative. For that…
November 18, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Lostronaut" by Jonathan Lethem

>The contributor notes this week tell us that Jonathan Lethem has a new novel coming out in 2009, news that raises some question in…
November 17, 2008

>Black Monday

>Thanks very much for your interest. We regret that your work doesn’t meet the present needs of the magazine. Thank you for submitting your…
November 16, 2008

>New Issue: Bound Off

>The latest issue of Bound Off is now live: The Redemption of Garvey Flint by Vincent Luis Carrella.