Month: May 2009

May 24, 2009

>Blu Debut

>Last night at the wonderful Darjeeling Cafe was the launch party for Blu Magazine, the new Arts and Culture magazine “serving Staunton, Harrisonburg, Augusta…
May 22, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Ava’s Apartment" by Jonathan Lethem

>Although it isn’t labeled a short story–The New Yorker doesn’t seem to do that–neither is this “fiction” by Jonathan Lethem labeled a novel excerpt,…
May 22, 2009

>Subscribe on your Kindle

>I find this amusing. You can now subscribe to Perpetual Folly on Kindle. For a small fee. And if you’re already subscribing, you’ll see…
May 20, 2009

>Writers.com

>I’m currently teaching an online course called “Writing the Literary Short Story” on a terrific site: Writers.com. The participants have varying degrees of writing…
May 19, 2009

>Flash Fiction Chronicles

>Flash Fiction Chronicles today features tips (from several writers, including me) on overcoming writers’ block: Unblock Some More, Please.
May 18, 2009

>"Whose Woods These Are"

>I recently linked to Ted Genoways’s manifesto in support of university presses and journals which was written specifically in response to pressure on The…
May 18, 2009

>Guest Blogger: Jessica Handler

>Hi, this is Jessica Handler guest-blogging for Cliff. (Thanks, Cliff!). Since my book, Invisible Sisters: A Memoir has been out just over a month,…
May 17, 2009

>The Subversive Copy Editor by Carol Fisher Saller

>The Subversive Copy EditorCarol Fisher SallerThe University of Chicago Press $13.00 I’m not sure I would have been aware of this terrific little book…
May 17, 2009

>Blu is coming

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May 16, 2009

>Hamlet v. Hamlet v. Hamlet

>Is this cool, or what? You know there are three versions of Hamlet, right? There’s the First Folio and the First and Second Quarto…