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.
August 13, 2008

>New Issue: Six Little Things #11

>Banned for Life.
August 13, 2008

>The Family by Jeff Sharlet

>Until I learned of this book, The Family, by Jeff Sharlet, I was not aware of the organization Sharlet writes about. I knew there…
August 13, 2008

>Ploughshares

>According to Dan Wickett at Emerging Writers Network, Ploughshares has selected Ladette Randolph as the new Editor-in-Chief, a position that has been vacant since…
August 10, 2008

>LitMag Wave: Fourteen Hills #14.2

>Writers hear all the time that they should read a magazine before submitting work to it, and most of us recognize that this is…
August 9, 2008

>ASC: Measure for Measure

>Measure for Measure may not end in quite the way you remember. In some productions, Isabella rejects the Duke; in some, she accepts his…
August 8, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Dinner Party" by Joshua Ferris

>How about that? I actually like the story this week. I don’t know that it’s great, mind you, and I think the end could…
August 8, 2008

>8/8/8

>Happy prosperity day! (The Chinese word for eight–ba–is similar to the word for wealth or prosper–fa–and so the number 8 is considered lucky ….
August 7, 2008

>Bad Idea: The Writers’ Lab

>No, no, The Writers’ Lab isn’t a bad idea. It’s a new tool being launched by a UK online magazine called Bad Idea. Check…
August 7, 2008

>New Issue: Carve

>There’s also a new issue of Carve that has just gone live.
August 7, 2008

>New Issue: The Short Review #10

>There’s a new issue of The Short Review, the zine that reviews short story collections.