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.
May 3, 2007

>The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, by Randy F. Nelson

>Today’s Short Story Month selection is Randy F. Nelson’s collection, The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award last year…
May 3, 2007

>Here and Somewhere Else, by Grace Paley and Robert Nichols

>Today’s selection is quite different from yesterday’s. This is no debut, for one thing. In fact most (if not all) of the content (mostly…
May 2, 2007

>National Magazine Award Winners

>McSweeney’s won the National Magazine Award in the Fiction category yesterday, The Paris Review won in the Photojournalism category, and Georgia Review won in…
May 2, 2007

>Male of the Species, by Alex Mindt

>If in any sense Short Story Month is viewed as a competition (American Idol? Dancing with the Stars?), then my pick for the first…
May 1, 2007

>May is Short Story Month

>As I mentioned not long ago, I am happy about Dan Wickett’s (over at Emerging Writers Network> declaration of May as Short Story Month…
May 1, 2007

>Storyglossia Issue 19

>If you haven’t seen it already, be sure and check out the latest issue of Storyglossia
May 1, 2007

>LitMag Wave: The Journal

>I think the Autumn/Winter 2006 issue of The Journal is the first I’ve seen. They didn’t ask my opinion, but I think they should…
May 1, 2007

>Readings: David Wojahn

>I had the pleasure this afternoon of attending a reading by David Wojahn at Washington and Lee University. It was announced only last week…
April 29, 2007

>Wake Wake Wake, by Valerie Nieman

>It’s still poetry month and this weekend I read Valerie Nieman’s Wake Wake Wake. When I first saw the title I liked it–the repetition…
April 29, 2007

>The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

>My friend Ann Barker, who lives in Chiapas, Mexico, doesn’t like Cormac McCarthy’s work. “baroque” she calls it, but she must use that term…