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.
October 28, 2008

>The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn

>The End of the Straight and Narrow by David McGlynn is one of those rare story collections that doesn’t allow the reader to take…
October 27, 2008

>Dear One Story: You’re not helping!

>One of the things I have been emphasizing with my students (I teach freshman composition in a community college) is noun-pronoun agreement. The rule…
October 27, 2008

>Folly Mills Creek–Autumn

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October 27, 2008

>More deer, more beavers

>Starting with the beavers: it’s a little hard to see the dam in this picture, but it’s there, cutting across the middle of the…
October 25, 2008

>REAL

>I just received my contributor’s copies of REAL (Regarding Arts and Letters) 33.1 which includes my story “House of the Ancients.” The story is…
October 24, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The BoyWho Had Never Seen the Sea” by J. M. G. Le Clézio

>This story by the recent Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio is NOT online so you’ll either have to find a copy of the magazine…
October 24, 2008

>Of Deer and Beavers

>On the one hand, I killed a deer. It’s no endangered species, but I still feel terrible about it. I had been at a…
October 21, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Sleep" by Roddy Doyle

>What’s odd about this story is the sense of being lost in time. When the story begins, the reader doesn’t know quite from what…
October 19, 2008

>Library of Virginia Awards

>R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah, last night won the Library of Virginia Award in poetry for his book Outlaw Style: Poems. Congratulations, Rod! Check…
October 19, 2008

>Reprise: In Garstang

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