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.
March 12, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train (cont’d)

>2My father had the mild manner of a floristHe wore a single-breasted dark-blueserge suit closely buttonedtrousers without cuffs and F.W. Woolworth stockingsconcealed under high…
March 11, 2005

>Bono for World Bank President?

>It is doubtful that many people in this country are paying attention to the almost daily rumors being circulated by the Bush administration about…
March 9, 2005

>Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train

>by Robert Nichols [Bob Nichols, Grace Paley’s husband, published his first book of poetry in 1962 through Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books. I just managed…
March 7, 2005

>Interview with Barry Hannah

>The best thing in the current issue of The Paris Review is the interview with Barry Hannah. For an excerpt, click here. There are…
March 3, 2005

>Cliché

>One Day at a Time What goes around comes around.I made up that phrase this morning.Do you like it? Would you like to use…
March 3, 2005

>A Muse of Fire

>I attended a terrific panel discussion this evening, made all the more compelling by its location: Virginia Military Institute. The panel explored Poetry and…
March 2, 2005

>Aleksandar Hemon

>Yesterday, both the Northwestern Magazine (the alumni magazine of Northwestern Univeristy) and The New Yorker arrived in my mailbox. In the former was an…
February 28, 2005

>Snow at Folly Mills 
February 27, 2005

>The Mired Earth

>I won’t dwell on the symbolism, but there’s a globe, bright blue and green, stuck in a backwater pool in my creek. I noticed…
February 27, 2005

>Keeping Up

>Just when I thought I was getting a handle on things, a new round of literary magazines began to arrive. I have shelves of…