Month: October 2009

October 30, 2009

>The Missing Link Project: The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank

>I won’t deny that The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank was entertaining, in the way a mindless romantic comedy is…
October 30, 2009

>NaNoWriMo is almost upon us

>November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, and it’s the 30 days in which crazed writers write a 50,000 word novel (um, that’s…
October 29, 2009

>The Missing Link Project: Later, at the Bar by Rebecca Barry

>There’s one terrific story in Rebecca Barry’s Later, at the Bar, which is supposed to be a novel in stories, according to the cover….
October 28, 2009

>The Missing Link Project: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

>There is a disappointing sameness to the stories in Knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollock’s collection, which in no way is a novel, although that’s what…
October 27, 2009

>North Carolina Readings

>I’m looking forward to next weekend’s swing through North Carolina for a series of readings with my good friend Mary Akers (Women up on…
October 27, 2009

>The Missing Link Project

>I’ve been thinking a lot lately about linked short story collections (or story cycles, or novels in stories), partly because my recently published book,…
October 26, 2009

>Book Talk with Kevin Wilson

> Book Talk Video – Kevin Wilson from stephen usery on Vimeo.
October 26, 2009

>Artistic Entrepreneurship

>Last week I attended a FREE seminar on Artistic Entrepreneurship sponsored by the Staunton Creative Community Fund and the Staunton Augusta Arts Center. The…
October 24, 2009

>Novel in Progress

>I’m working on a novel. (I know: Who isn’t?) I’ve just published a collection of short stories, my agent is working to sell a…
October 23, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Procedure in Plain Air" by Jonathan Lethem

>Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City, from which a story was excerpted in The New Yorker earlier this year, was recently released, so presumably the current…