Month: July 2010

July 11, 2010

>Book Review: Visit Me in California by Cooley Windsor

> Check out my review of Cooley Windsor’s fine short story collection Visit Me in California in Examiner.com.
July 9, 2010

>The New Yorker: "An Honest Exit" by Dinaw Mengestu

> Here’s another installment in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 series, and yet again it isn’t a story. It’s an excerpt from Mengestu’s…
July 8, 2010

>An Interview with Prime Number’s Editor Clifford Garstang – The Subversive Copy Editor Blog

>An Interview with Prime Number’s Editor Clifford Garstang – The Subversive Copy Editor Blog
July 5, 2010

>Dzanc Books: You Buy and We’ll Donate

> We’ve talked about the Tin House news — they’re now insisting on a receipt for a book purchased in a bookstore accompanying submissions…
July 4, 2010

>Sewanee is coming

> Actually, Sewanee (the Sewanee Writers Conference) is staying right where it is. But I’m going to it in a little over a week….
July 3, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Erlking" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

> We know from the Q&A with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum that this story is based in some way on Goethe’s The Erlking. We have Kate and…
July 3, 2010

>Rerun: In the Palace of Cortés

>I just had a chance to revisit my story In the Palace of Cortés which appeared in Per Contra some time ago, and thought I’d…
July 3, 2010

>Tin House to Require Bookstore Receipt for Unsolicited Manuscripts – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat

> Tin House to Require Bookstore Receipt for Unsolicited Manuscripts – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat You want to submit to Tin House (Books or Magazine), you…
July 1, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Young Painters" by Nicole Krauss

> I liked this “story” a lot. It’s not a short story, of course. It’s an excerpt from Krauss’s forthcoming novel. I wonder if…