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 12, 2006

>Interview with Robert Vivian

>Katrina Denza interviews Robert Vivian, author of The Mover of Bones.
October 12, 2006

>Rain Taxi Fall 2006

>The new print issue of Rain Taxi is available and the new online issue is, um, online. This is a terrific magazine of reviews,…
October 12, 2006

>Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel Prize

>The Nobel Prize in Literature was today awarded to Orhan Pamuk of Turkey. I’ve got Snow around here somehwere–I really must read it! NPR…
October 11, 2006

>Kiran Desai wins Man Booker Prize

>I wasn’t surprised to learn that Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss–which I have but of course haven’t…
October 10, 2006

>Excise Excess Exercise

>I’ve been working on a story I wrote a couple of years ago, based (very loosely) on a translation I did of a Korean…
October 9, 2006

>Russell Banks News

>If you’re a fan of Russell Banks, you’ll be pleased to hear that he has a new novel coming out in the Fall of…
October 9, 2006

>LitMag Wave: The Sun (October 2006)

>I have been a subscriber to The Sun for some time now, but I confess I don’t often read the magazine cover to cover,…
October 8, 2006

>Coping with Rejection

>It would be nice if rejection didn’t happen, but it does. Getting rejection letters (or emails, or badly photocopied scraps of paper with no…
October 8, 2006

>New Feature

>One of the drawbacks of Blogger has been the lack of categories, which makes finding old posts difficult. Since my “LitMag Wave” reviews of…
October 8, 2006

>LitMag Wave: Harpur Palate

>I received the Summer 2006 issue of Harpur Palate because I entered the John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction contest. My story, “Stonewall,” was…