Month: September 2010

September 30, 2010

>"A Good Man is Hard to Find"

> I wrote the syllabus for my composition class in early August. Because of the way holidays and the school’s fall break fell, I…
September 28, 2010

>MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grants"

>The so-called “genius grants” were announced today, and included among the 23 recipients named by the MacArthur Foundation was fiction writer Yiyun Li. Screenwriter…
September 28, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Warm Fuzzies" by Chris Adrian

> It turns out that the previous Adrian story in The New Yorker, which I liked very much, was an excerpt from the novel…
September 22, 2010

>New issue: r.kv.r.y

> Check out the new issue of r.kv.r.y now under the leadership of Mary Akers.
September 22, 2010

>The New Yorker: "Birdsong" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

> Set in Lagos, Nigeria, this is the story of an angry young woman having an affair with an older, married businessman. The affair…
September 17, 2010

>750 Words

>If you write 750 words every day for a year, you’ll have written . . . [stops to calculate] . . . 273,750 words,…
September 14, 2010

>SWAG Writers September Reading

> The SWAG Writers Reading Series continues this month with an event on September 29th at the Darjeeling Cafe (in the new space at…
September 13, 2010

>Prime Number Magazine News

> We had a busy weekend at Prime Number Magazine. Not only were we reading lots of wonderful submissions and working on editing the…
September 11, 2010

>The New Yorker: "The Landlord" by Wells Tower

> Wells Tower fans aren’t likely to be any happier with me than they were when I discussed his last story in The New…
September 11, 2010

>The Book Club : The New Yorker

> The New Yorker’s Book Club is considering Jonathan Dee’s The Privileges this month. (Dee was my thesis advisor in my MFA program.) I’ve…