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.
April 23, 2009

>Interview with Tom Lombardo

>Check out this interview with poet Tom Lombardo in advance of the upcoming reading at The Writers Center of poets featured in the anthology…
April 23, 2009

>The Lonely Voice

>This new column by Peter Orner–a Bread Loaf friend with whom I reconnected at the Virginia Festival of the Book last month–looks like it…
April 22, 2009

>New Issue: The Short Review

>There’s another fine issue of The Short Review now available, and it includes, among other tasty treats, an interview with Jim Tomlinson, whose second…
April 21, 2009

>Reader’s Circle

>Looking for a book club? Looking for author events? Check out Reader’s Circle. From the front page: Reader’s Circle seeks to renew the spirit…
April 21, 2009

>New Issue: Carve Magazine Spring 2009

>The Spring 2009 issue of Carve is now live.
April 21, 2009

>The New Yorker: "A Tiny Feast" by Chris Adrian

>I hate cancer stories. There are too many of them and it is too easy to make them overly sentimental and melodramatic. But this…
April 20, 2009

>Pulitzer Prizes Announced

>Congratulations to Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge, for her Pulitzer Prize in Fiction! Such awesome news for her.
April 20, 2009

>Talk Like Shakespeare Day

>Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, is announcing this morning that Thursday (Shakespeare’s birthday) will be Talk Like Shakespeare Day in the city. Check out…