Month: June 2010

June 30, 2010

>Peace Corps Writers – Review: Peter Blair’s poetry about the PC experience – Farang

> I met Peter Blair at the AWP Conference in Denver this year. It’s nice to see his book getting a little exposure! Peace…
June 29, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Twins" by C.E. Morgan

> Whenever I discover that a New Yorker “story” is an excerpt from a book, I lose my enthusiasm for commenting on it, no…
June 29, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Kid" by Salvatore Scibona

> There’s a kid wandering around the Hamburg airport and various airline personnel are trying to figure out what his story is. They aren’t…
June 26, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Dayward" by ZZ Packer

> Packer has a forthcoming novel, The Thousands, from which this is presumably an excerpt. (She doesn’t say this explicitly in the Q&A, but…
June 26, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart

> This is an excerpt from Shteyngart’s new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, due out in July. Not that the magazine is telling…
June 26, 2010

>Wounds and Meteors: A Review of Electric Urgency by Maryanne Stahl

> Wounds and Meteors: A Review of Electric Urgency by Maryanne Stahl (Pudding House Publications) by Amy George By the time you have finished…
June 23, 2010

>Bestseller! (at The Sacred Circle)

> The Sacred Circle is a great little bookstore in Staunton, VA, and Carey, the owner, has been steadily selling my book since it…
June 23, 2010

>Prime Number Magazine . . . is coming

> In a little under four weeks, the first issue of Prime Number Magazine will go live. Be sure and visit the website in…
June 23, 2010

>The Millions : 20 More Under 40

>The Millions : 20 More Under 40
June 23, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Entire Northern Side Was Covered With Fire" by Rivka Galchen

> Here’s another marriage in trouble, this time from the wife’s point of view. And again, a child is at risk. Trish is a…