Month: February 2009

February 21, 2009

>Herd Instinct

>So I’m straightening up a little after breakfast when I notice a deer stroll out of the woods behind the house. It’s kind a…
February 21, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Daughters of the Moon" by Italo Calvino

>This must be weird story month in The New Yorker. The Millhauser allegory was odd enough, but now we’ve got Calvino and the wooly…
February 19, 2009

>Rain Taxi

>While we’re on the subject of book reviews, there’s a new issue of the online edition of Rain Taxi Review of Books. Lots of…
February 19, 2009

>The Short Review

>To say that there’s a new issue of The Short Review up doesn’t do it justice, because it’s not an ordinary literary magazine. Instead,…
February 19, 2009

>AWP Recap No. 4

>There was snow Friday night, so we had that to deal with on Saturday, but not much. Just enough to make the scenery on…
February 18, 2009

>VQR at AWP

>If The Virginia Quarterly Review had a table at AWP, I missed it. (Entirely possible.) But they did blog from the conference: here, here,…
February 18, 2009

>AWP Recap No. 3

>I wasn’t sure what to expect from “The Author-Editor Connection” but I found all the panelists to be excellent, and the information useful. Ron…
February 17, 2009

>AWP 2009 Recap No. 2

>Although Wednesday was truly wet, Thursday began bright. I was staying with a friend on the North Side–a non-writer friend who reads voraciously and…
February 16, 2009

>New Issue: Bound Off #37

>Check out Bound Off for their latest issue: stories by David Backer and Zein El-Amine.
February 16, 2009

>AWP 2009 Recap No. 1

>I returned last night from AWP 2009-Chicago. It was a blast and jam-packed. Even if I had intended to blog from Chicago, which I…