Author: Cliff

>It’s Roy Kesey week over at the excellent litblog, The Elegant Variation. Roy is wandering around the U.S. this week promoting his book (which…

>My first reaction to Sven Birkerts’s introduction to Agni 63 was—what a pompous piece of . . . How dare he reject anyone’s story…

>Please read Steve Almond’s open letter in The Boston Globe in which he resigns his teaching position at Boston College in protest over the…

>To complain, to grumble; a cause for complaint. But, also, a chicken-like bird of the pheasant family. And I have to ask, why was…

>Although I’ve submitted my stories to Crazyhorse in the past, Issue 69 (Spring 2006) is, I believe, the first I’ve held in my hands….

>I forget what I was looking for when I stumbled across the website of the Illinois Poet Laureate. It seems like a wonderful site,…

>Check out all the Finalists and Winners of the National Magazine Awards, announced yesterday. Big congratulations to Virginia Quarterly Review, which won two awards,…

>The publication of the annual O. Henry Prize anthology is a significant event. The 2006 edition comes out this week and for a short…

>by Elizabeth Strout Probably this novel won’t appeal to everyone. It is not a book that depends in any grand way on its plot….

>Check out this Interview with Roy Kesey.