Month: May 2009

May 9, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Autobiography of J.G.B." by J.G. Ballard

>More allegory? I have not read much J.G. Ballard, who died last month, so I don’t know how typical this is for him. Perhaps…
May 7, 2009

>Marc Fitten’s Indie 100

>Lots of authors go on book tours, although there is much discussion about how effective touring is. Marc Fitten has started his tour in…
May 7, 2009

>Top 50 [Very] Short Fiction

>Check out Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fiction 2009 which just went up. The pieces chosen are all flashes from the web.
May 6, 2009

>American Shakespeare Center’s Spring Season

>Murder. Revenge. Gambling. Belly Dancers. The spring season of the American Shakespeare Center at Staunton’s Blackfriars Playhouse has something for everyone. First, there is…
May 4, 2009

>The Subversive Copy Editor

>Publisher’s Weekly calls The Subversive Copy Editor the “best copy editor’s companion since the [Chicago Manual of Style]” in their Web Exclusive Review for…
May 2, 2009

>Andrew’s Book Club May Picks

>Okay, I have to confess that I’m still reading the April picks, but here comes Andrew, right on time, with May picks for Andrew’s…
May 2, 2009

>The IPPYs

>Indpendent Publisher Online Magazine awards the IPPYs each year, awards for the best books from the independent presses. Awards are offered in a lot…
May 1, 2009

>Pinckney Benedict in Image Journal

>Image Journal profiles Pinckney Benedict, and prints his story, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, also forthcoming in New Stories from the South.
May 1, 2009

>Buy Indie

>Today is International Buy Indie Day, on which we are encouraged to buy a book (or two) from an Independent Bookstore. If you don’t…
May 1, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Slows" by Gail Hareven

>Kicking off Short Story Month! It takes a little while to figure out what’s going on here because the narrative voice sounds normal and…