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 10, 2008

>The Shape of a Box

>The Shape of a Box may be the very first YouTube Literary Magazine. Check it out:
October 9, 2008

>Dam Beavers

>I have the pleasure of living in a quiet rural setting. My house is on a rise and the bottom of the hill is…
October 9, 2008

>French Novelist Wins Nobel

>The New York Times reports that Jean-Marie Gustave Le Crezio has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. I’m not surprised that I’ve never…
October 7, 2008

>The Story of an Hour

>Narrative Magazine‘s Story of the Week this week is Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour.
October 6, 2008

>Distraction

>It’s a combination of things, but I’ll blame election season primarily. I’m involved, I’m busy, I’m reading tea leaves. Posts are likely to be…
October 6, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Idiot President" by Daniel Alarcón

>Anyone who has read Daniel Alarcón’s Lost City Radio will, I imagine, recognize the style and cadence of this story. Like that novel, “The…
October 1, 2008

>Nobel Prize Watch

>First, don’t expect this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to be an American. It’s been widely reported that the top member…
September 30, 2008

>Banned Books Week

>It’s Banned Books Week Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since…
September 27, 2008

>ASC: Richard II

>The American Shakespeare Center’s production of Richard II is gripping. The tension that binds King Richard, played brilliantly by John Harrell, and Henry Bullingbrook,…