Month: July 2009

July 2, 2009

>New Pages

>I’ve often referred to NewPages.com on this blog because it is exceedingly useful to writers and readers. But I’ve just been browsing there and…
July 2, 2009

>New Blu

>Issue #2 of Blu Magazine, the Shenandoah Valley’s Free Monthly, is popping up around the area. It looks great, and I’m not just saying…
July 2, 2009

>Newsweek’s Meta-list: The Top 100 Books

>Lots of talk in literary circles this week about the current Newsweek issue. Here’s one part of it: Newsweek’s Top 100 Books. How many…
July 2, 2009

>Forthcoming Books

>The Millions highlights some highly anticipated books coming out in the second half of this year in Most Anticipated: Rounding Out 2009 — An…
July 2, 2009

>Andrew’s Book Club — July Picks

>Andrew’s Book Club has posted its July choices of short story collections: Misfits and Other Heroes by Suzanne Burns (Dzanc) and Do Not Deny…
July 2, 2009

>100,000

>At some point in the next couple of days, this blog will have its 100,000th hit since . . . a few years ago….
July 1, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Childcare" by Lorrie Moore

>This fiction is almost certainly from Moore’s forthcoming novel, and in my opinion it does not work as a story. There’s a bit of…
July 1, 2009

>New Issue: Hobart July ’09

>The new print Hobart (#10) is on its way, I’m told, and the new online issue is up: Hobart for your reading pleasure.