>Happy Birthday Peace Corps!

>Today (3/1/2006) is the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps by President John F. Kennedy. More than 180,000 volunteers have served…

>Overwhelming

>The Virginia Festival of the Book begins in three weeks (it runs March 22-26). I just browsed through the program listing for the first…

>Frederick Busch

>The news that Frederick Busch has died is sad. He has been for several years one of my favorite writers. The Night Inspector, in…

>Stupid White People

>I knew White Supremacists existed, I just didn’t realize how well-organized they were. And we’re not talking KKK or John Birchers here, who are…

>Or Storyglossia?

>This is a link I’m stealing from Katrina Denza. It’s definitely worth spending some time browsing both the website and the weblog at Storyglossia.

>Siam

>by Lily Tuck In 1967, Claire meets James on an airplane, they have sex, they get married, and because he is attached to the…

>Collection

>Since I began writing short stories in the last semester of my MFA program (once the novel was finished–hah!) I’ve been aiming toward a…