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 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 17, 2008

>Another one bites the dust

>When I lived in DC, one of my favorite activities was bookstore browsing. On my lunch break I often walked up to the Borders…
October 16, 2008

>National Book Award Finalists

>The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards were announced yesterday. The winners will be named in November. I haven’t read any of these…