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.
May 12, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d–Part II.3)

>3.Bhullikky bhullikky bllkk bllkk bllkk bllkkllkk llkk llkk llkk llkk llkk llkk The Pampelune Hotel Baton Rouge 1921-22.In my father’s roomis a framed photo…
May 11, 2005

>Bulletproof Girl, by Quinn Dalton

>I met Quinn Dalton at the Sewanee Writers Conference last summer, where she was a fellow, and saw her again at the Virginia Festival…
May 9, 2005

>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

>by John Perkins It is difficult to know where to begin with this book, which reads more like a novel than the political economy…
May 8, 2005

>Heaven Lake, by John Dalton

>There are aspects of Heaven Lake that I liked very much. In particular, Dalton does a wonderful job of rendering Taiwanese and Chinese life….
May 2, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (Cont’d–Part II.2)

>2.Not the wild wind whooping into the Great Plainsor grappling over the Savannahs.We have arrived at dusk:Memphis Duluth Boise Prescott Dodge CityIn our pocket…
April 30, 2005

>Underrated? Overrated?

>For Issue No. 58 of Boulevard, Editor Richard Burgin asked several writers this question: Which writer or artist do you think is the most…
April 29, 2005

>Was Myers Right?

>The recent review by B.R. Myers of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (he hated it), brought to mind the Myers essay…
April 28, 2005

>Happy Birthday Bhikku

>Bhikku is 3 years old! 
April 27, 2005

>The empty tropes of transgressive fiction

> “Ready-made Rebellion: The empty tropes of transgressive fiction”—Jonathan Dee in the April 2005 Harper’s Magazine. “Good fiction has never been about moral instruction;…
April 27, 2005

>The Professor’s Daughter

>The Professor’s Daughter, by Emily Raboteau, is a fine “novel in stories.” The collection is mostly narrated by Emma Boudreaux (the similarity to the…