Author: Cliff

May 23, 2006

>Stacks . . .

>. . . and stacks of books. Mostly I’ve been pretty good these last few months about not buying books, that is to say,…
May 22, 2006

>Ted Genoways

>One of Charlottesville’s free weekly newspapers, The Hook, has a profile this week of Ted Genoways, boy-wonder-rising-star-editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Because VQR’s excellence…
May 21, 2006

>The Best American Fiction of the Last 25 Years

>Today’s New York Times offers a list of the best American works of fiction of the last quarter century. Check out the list here,…
May 20, 2006

>Indiana University Writers’ Conference

>I learned yesterday that I have been awarded a scholarship to the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, which takes place in Bloomington on the IU…
May 19, 2006

>The Brief History of the Dead

>by Kevin Brockmeier Imagine a world in which everyone but you has read a particular book. Each reader has crossed over into an alternate…
May 18, 2006

>French, Spanish, What’s the Diff?

>A friend of mine, Don, teaches high school Spanish. I see him at the gym from time to time and today he told me…
May 17, 2006

>How A Book Saved Me

>Roy Kesey Week continues over at The Elegant Variation. Be sure and check out the Nothing in the World Contest. Here’s my entry: You’re…
May 15, 2006

>Lalami Shortlisted for Caine Prize

>Laila Lalami (she of MoorishGirl.com) has been shortlisted for the 2006 Caine Prize for her story “The Fanatic,” a chapter in her novel/collection Hope…