Month: May 2009

May 31, 2009

>Gray Baby by Scott Loring Sanders

>Another friend has a novel coming out this week: Gray Baby by Scott Loring Sanders will be released tomorrow.
May 31, 2009

>100 Best Novels

>A game. A diversion. As if you (I) didn’t have enough distractions.Can you name the 100 best novels according to Modern Library (1900-1998)? (And,…
May 31, 2009

>Residency Report–halfway point

>My residency is half over, which is odd because it feels as though I just got here. Apart from the appearance of poison ivy…
May 31, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Love Affair with Secondaries" by Craig Raine

>I tell writing students that stories about adultery and stories about cancer are tired and done to death, and that stories about adultery AND…
May 30, 2009

>Interview with Elizabeth Strout

>Check out Tom Ashbrook’s interview with Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Olive Kitteridge. H/T Kat!
May 29, 2009

>Residency Report

>For the last several days I’ve been in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. I arrived here Monday…
May 28, 2009

>Laura Brodie’s The Widow’s Season

>My friend, Washington & Lee University professor Laura Brodie, has a novel coming out next week from Berkley Books. Although I’ve not read this…
May 26, 2009

>Munro Wins Man Booker International Prize

>Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
May 26, 2009

>New Issue: Right Hand Pointing #26

>Check out the new issue of Right Hand Pointing, which looks like another good one.
May 24, 2009

>Off to Kimmel Harding Nelson

>I’m very excited to be preparing for a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. During my two weeks there, I…