Author: Cliff

> Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle and a wonderful teacher and reader, has a new book coming out in March.

>Dates for this year’s Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville are March 22-26, 2006. The lineup is still preliminary, but included among the…

>Although my contributor’s copies haven’t arrived yet, when I stopped by a Barnes & Noble today I noticed that the issue of The Baltimore…

>Not long ago, I submitted a story to Chelsea, in large part because when I last submitted to them they turned me down but…

>by Lily Tuck Ella is an Irish golddigger in Paris, divorced from her French husband, living with a Russian count, desperate for cash to…

>by Jonathan Safran Foer I’ve been meaning to read this for some time, but finally decided to do it when I learned that the…

>by Joan Silber This collection calls itself a “ring of stories,” and was recommended to me by Charles Baxter when I described to him…

>by Marilynne Robinson Ruth Stone and her sister Lucille are left with their grandmother, Sylvia, by their mother, Helen, who drives a borrowed car…

>by Walker Percy I’ve wanted to read more Percy (I read The Second Coming some time ago) and this is considered one of his…

>by Joan Didion This is a stunning book. It is hard to imagine how difficult for Didion it was to write about the sudden…