Author: Cliff

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.
May 1, 2009

>Pinckney Benedict in Image Journal

>Image Journal profiles Pinckney Benedict, and prints his story, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, also forthcoming in New Stories from the South.
May 1, 2009

>Buy Indie

>Today is International Buy Indie Day, on which we are encouraged to buy a book (or two) from an Independent Bookstore. If you don’t…
May 1, 2009

>The New Yorker: "The Slows" by Gail Hareven

>Kicking off Short Story Month! It takes a little while to figure out what’s going on here because the narrative voice sounds normal and…
April 29, 2009

>It’s Happening Again

>Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network has declared May to be Short Story Month, and will be reading and writing about a lot of…
April 28, 2009

>Gardening

>New experience this year. I tried a garden when I first moved into this house in 2001, but I didn’t know what I was…
April 28, 2009

>"Books That Will Make You a Better Man"

>I think Esquire is kind of a waste of paper these days, but they practically give the thing away–right now, online, you can subscribe…
April 24, 2009

>New Issue: failbetter.com Spring 2009

>There’s some very good stuff in the new issue of failbetter.com, which is now live, including an interview with Sherman Alexie, by Margo Rabb,…
April 23, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Vast Hell" by Guillermo Martínez

>Oooh, a nice twist here, and so I’ll try not to reveal too much of the plot. The narrator works in the grocery store…