Month: April 2011

April 21, 2011

>New Postage Rates

>Since most of writers these days use online submissions almost exclusively–although there are still an awful lot of places that take only snail mail…
April 21, 2011

>SWAG Writers’ Poetry Fest

> Last night, SWAG Writers—the Staunton, Waynesboro, Augusta Group of Writers—held its first (dare I say “first annual”?) Poetry Fest in honor of National…
April 21, 2011

>The New Yorker: "The Good Samaritan" by Thomas McGuane

> I can’t say that I loved this story, but I did love some things about it.  First, it employs a classic “stranger comes…
April 20, 2011

>R.I.P. Jeanne Leiby

> I didn’t know Jeanne Leiby well–in fact I met her only once, at an AWP Conference–but I was very impressed with what she…
April 19, 2011

>The New Yorker: "A Withered Branch" by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

> I guess I’ll give some allowances for this story, an appealing slice of a difficult life translated from the Russian, but if it…
April 19, 2011

>Issue 7 of Prime Number Magazine is now live!

> Issue 7 of Prime Number Magazine is now live! This is our biggest issue yet, with 8 short stories, 2 essays, 3 book…
April 19, 2011

>The Pulitzer Prizes | What’s New

> The Pulitzer Prizes | What’s New You’ve probably already heard the news: Jennifer Egan won the Fiction Pulitzer for A Visit From the…
April 16, 2011

>The Pale King Review – David Foster Wallace The Pale King – Esquire

> I’m prepared to accept that David Foster Wallace was a genius. I’ve only read short pieces by him, but I am convinced I…
April 11, 2011

>10 Most Frequently Challenged Library Books of 2010 – GalleyCat

>Good to see that censorship, or attempted censorship, is alive in 21st Century America: 10 Most Frequently Challenged Library Books of 2010 – GalleyCat
April 11, 2011

>WriterHouse Panel on Literary Magazines

> Thanks to WriterHouse for hosting the Literary Journals Demystified panel yesterday. I was there on behalf of Prime Number Magazine and joined two editors…