>It’s Happening Again

>Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network has declared May to be Short Story Month, and will be reading and writing about a lot of…

>Redbud

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>Dogwood

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>Gardening

>New experience this year. I tried a garden when I first moved into this house in 2001, but I didn’t know what I was…

>"Books That Will Make You a Better Man"

>I think Esquire is kind of a waste of paper these days, but they practically give the thing away–right now, online, you can subscribe…

>New Issue: failbetter.com Spring 2009

>There’s some very good stuff in the new issue of failbetter.com, which is now live, including an interview with Sherman Alexie, by Margo Rabb,…

>The New Yorker: "Vast Hell" by Guillermo Martínez

>Oooh, a nice twist here, and so I’ll try not to reveal too much of the plot. The narrator works in the grocery store…

>Interview with Tom Lombardo

>Check out this interview with poet Tom Lombardo in advance of the upcoming reading at The Writers Center of poets featured in the anthology…

>New Issue: Waccamaw #3

>The latest issue of Waccamaw is now up.

>The Lonely Voice

>This new column by Peter Orner–a Bread Loaf friend with whom I reconnected at the Virginia Festival of the Book last month–looks like it…