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.
February 9, 2007

>LitMag Wave: One Story #77

>One Story No. 77 is “Prayer for the Long Life of Certain Inanimate Objects” by Paul Maliszewski. On the surface, the story is unique….
February 8, 2007

>Literary Magazine Blogs

>As if I weren’t already way behind in reading the stacks of novels and story collections I’ve acquired recently (in, say, the last decade…
February 8, 2007

>LitMag Wave: Southwest Review

>Issue 92, No. 1 of the Southwest Review recently arrived in my mailbox. I was pleased to see that my friend Chris Gavaler had…
February 5, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Good People" by David Foster Wallace

>Lane and Sheri have met at Peoria Junior College, in campus ministries. He studies business and she studies nursing and mostly what they do…
February 5, 2007

>Mary Akers Essay in Brevity

>Check out On Receiving Notice of My Step-daughter’s Pregnancy by Mary Akers, in the new issue of Brevity. Wonderful!
February 4, 2007

>Mistake Number 8

> Don’t Write About Wimps. I learned this one the hard way. My whole novel was about this passive guy–he even had a passive…
February 4, 2007

>Super Bowl

>This is my obligatory Super Bowl post, complete with prediciton. Loyalties aside (born in Indiana, raised in Illinois, Chicago for College, Indiana for grad…
February 3, 2007

>3:AM Magazine

>Lots of good, edgy stuff to read at 3:AM Magazine, including a new flash piece, Punk Love, by Alicia Gifford.
February 2, 2007

>Work-of-the-Day at EWN

>Lately, Dan Wickett on Emerging Writers Network has been highlighting a single story or essay each day. Recently he’s discussed work by Katrina Denza,…