Month: March 2012

March 19, 2012

>The New Yorker: "Chapter Two" by Antonya Nelson

> March 26, 2012: “Chapter Two” by Antonya Nelson I’ve certainly read stories by Antonya Nelson that I liked more than this one, although…
March 16, 2012

>Review Review Review

> This year I have been posting about literary magazines–not reviewing them, exactly, but for my own edification attempting to describe the kind of…
March 16, 2012

>Virginia Festival of the Book

> One of the highlights of the year in this area–the literary year at any rate–is the Virginia Festival of the Book. And I…
March 16, 2012

>Year of the LitMag: Indiana Review, Vol. 33, No. 2

> [This is the latest in my Year of the LitMag series. If you would be interested in doing a guest post in the…
March 16, 2012

>Tips for Writers: Conferences

> Last week, a commenter asked what my opinion of writers conferences was and whether I favored one over another, so that will be…
March 15, 2012

>SWAG Writers: WriterDay and OpenMic Night

> SWAG Writers (the Staunton-Waynesboro-Augusta Group of Writers), the organization I started a couple of years ago, continues to grow. Tonight we had a…
March 13, 2012

>The New Yorker: "Appreciation" by Rivka Galchen

> March 17, 2012: “Appreciation” by Rivka Galchen This story begins well. It’s written as if it were the evidentiary record in a dispute…
March 9, 2012

>Tips for Writers: It’s Your Vision

> Only the writer knows what she is trying to do with her story. It’s unquestionably useful to get the reaction of readers in…
March 7, 2012

>AWP 2012 Recap: Thinking With Your Own Apparatus

> “Thinking with Your Own Apparatus: Fiction Writers and History” was an interesting panel that in my view was equally applicable to historical and…
March 6, 2012

>The New Yorker: "Ever Since" by Donald Antrim

> March 12, 2012: “Ever Since” by Donald Antrim Every once in a while, the New Yorker story is actually set in New York….