Month: January 2010

January 21, 2010

>Waltzing Cowboys by Sarah Collins Honenberger

>Waltzing CowboysSarah Collins HonenbergerCedar Creek Publishing 2008, $15.95 This engaging small novel has feet in two worlds. It begins in the West, in the…
January 20, 2010

>Book Blogger Convention

>I wonder if there’s any way I can go to the Book Blogger Convention? (May 28 in NYC)
January 17, 2010

>Harper’s: "My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain" by T. Coraghessan Boyle

>In my discussion of the Boyle story in this week’s New Yorker I commented that it was interesting that the author’s name is T….
January 17, 2010

>The Death of Fiction?

>The Virginia Quarterly Review Blog links to and discusses VQR Editor Ted Genoways’s essay in Mother Jones: The Death of Fiction? (and also link…
January 17, 2010

>ASC: Twelfth Night

>The American Shakespeare Center does Twelfth Night every few years. It’s popular and definitely a staple for a Shakespeare company. The last time they…
January 16, 2010

>The New Yorker: "A Death in Kitchawank" by T. Coraghessan Boyle

>Why is this author called “T. Coraghessan Boyle” in The New Yorker, but “T.C. Boyle” everywhere else? (He also has a story in this…
January 15, 2010

>The Haiti Disaster

>”Disaster” is too small a word for what has happened and is happening in Haiti. The images I have seen on my computer screen…
January 13, 2010

>My ears are burning

>I think someone must be talking about me. Hey, they are! (A “friendly fellow named Clifford Garstang . . .”) Over at Wag’s Revue,…
January 13, 2010

>Book Club: In an Uncharted Country

>Since my linked short story collection (In an Uncharted Country) came out in September 2009, I have enjoyed making appearances at bookstores and libraries…
January 11, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Safari" by Jennifer Egan

>This “story” is actually an excerpt from Egan’s forthcoming novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, which, according to Random House, is about a…