Month: January 2015

January 20, 2015

New Issue of Prime Number Magazine: No. 67

We have just published Issue 67 of Prime Number Magazine. Check it out! Fiction by Nick Ostdick and Michael Overa, Nonfiction by James Alan…
January 19, 2015

Prime Number Magazine Awards — 2015

Prime Number Magazine, of which I am the editor, is now accepting entries for the 2nd Annual Prime Number Magazine Awards. We have made…
January 19, 2015

2015 Reading: The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2010

The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 2010 I’ve been a subscriber to TGR for a long time, so when I grabbed a copy to read this…
January 18, 2015

The New Yorker: “Pending Vegan” by Jonathan Lethem

April 7, 2014: “Pending Vegan” by Jonathan Lethem Paul, weaning himself from an anti-depressant, takes his family to SeaWorld. His daughter, Deirdre, is afraid…
January 17, 2015

Digging Deep: A Fiction Workshop

Beginning Tuesday, January 20, I’m teaching an 8-week fiction workshop at WriterHouse in Charlottesville that I call Digging Deep. My thinking is that writers–if…
January 16, 2015

Bridgewater International Poetry Festival — happening now!

Poetry fan? Head on over to Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia (about a half hour north of Staunton, VA, where I live) where the…
January 14, 2015

The New Yorker: “Breadman” by J. Robert Lennon

January 19, 2015: “Breadman” by J. Robert Lennon Weird story. I liked it. The first person narrator joins a queue in a small shop…
January 12, 2015

The New Yorker: “A Sheltered Woman” by Yiyun Li

March 10, 2014: “A Sheltered Woman” by Yiyun Li This is a terrific sketch of a character in a unique situation, but not much…
January 12, 2015

The New Yorker: “The Big Cat” by Louise Erdrich

March 31, 2014: “The Big Cat” by Louise Erdrich I admire Louise Erdrich’s work, and I liked this story in which a man marries…
January 11, 2015

2015 Reading: House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III Parts of this book were impressive. In particular, I thought the sections told from the point…