>NBCC

>The National Book Critics Circle has started a blog. Should be worth checking out from time to time; I’ll add it to the growing…

>Li-Young Lee

>This afternoon I attended a reading by poet Li-Young Lee, sponsored by Shenandoah and the Glasgow Endowment. I arrived early, just as R.T. Smith,…

>Nothing in the World

>Watch for this novella by Roy Kesey, a fine writer whose stories have been appearing in all the best places of late. Check out…

>LitMag Wave: One Story (x 2)

>These two issues of One Story arrived within days of each other, so I thought I’d slip them into the LitMag Wave. Issue 72…

>Keep and Give Away

>Susan Meyers’s first collection of poetry is available from the University of South Carolina Press. Susan is a terrific poet and I was excited…

>Perpetual Pushcart Project Preview

>Since there isn’t a lot of money to be made in writing short stories, it’s a good thing there are prizes and awards, so…

>LitMag Wave: failbetter.com

>I sometimes forget that the online journals exist and publish some fine stuff. Among other things, there’s a great interview with Anne Tyler in…

>LitMag Wave: Prairie Schooner

>Is it just a coincidence that the Spring 2006 issue of Prairie Schooner leads with a story by R.T. Smith and also has a…

>Tooth and Claw

>by T.C. Boyle I don’t consider myself a T.C. Boyle fan. Boyle has certainly been successful and I know people who read everything he…

>Mistaken Identity

>Last month I reported that I had bought Mooch by Dan Fante among several other volumes on sale at the Green Valley Book Fair….