Author: Cliff

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.
January 1, 2006

>Our Endangered Values

>by Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter’s latest book is a quick read and makes a strong case against not only the administration of George W….
January 1, 2006

>2006

>It’s a new year, all right, but it looks kind of like the old one: cloudy, damp, snow lingering from, what, a month ago?…
December 31, 2005

>Happy New Year!

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December 31, 2005

>Bummer

>The Sun Bowl people (I refuse to call it the “Vitalis Sun Bowl”) are surely happy, but I’m not. This was the only game…
December 30, 2005

>Affliction

>by Russell Banks This is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a tough New England veteran, with heaps of trouble: a nagging toothache, a bitchy…
December 29, 2005

>Book Awards

>In response to my recent post about Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, in which I commented that it reminded me of its contemporary, Reveolutionary Road…
December 29, 2005

>Abide with Me

> Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle and a wonderful teacher and reader, has a new book coming out in March.
December 28, 2005

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>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…
December 28, 2005

>The Baltimore Review

>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…
December 23, 2005

>A Pox on Chelsea

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