Author: Cliff

>The Writer’s Chronicle, published by AWP, is a terrific magazine that usually has at least one outstanding craft article in each issue. The February…

>I’ve tried to do this for myself, creating a list of literary journals and then ranking them by various criteria–payment, circulation, reputation–and then putting…

>The current issue of Fugue contains an interesting interview with Margot Livesey. ML: “I aspire to write every day. In my ideal life I…

>Arthur Miller was a giant. Sitting on my desk, under an enormous paper weight, is his story Beavers, torn from the current (February 2005)…

> by Wang Wei The pristine mountain has not seen man, Has only heard the sound of his voice; Return to nature and enter…

>I hesitate to post, if only because I like the picture of Grace & Bob so much and don’t want to move it down…

>Grace Paley & Bob Nichols   –photograph by Marion Lewis, Tepoztlan, Mexico, January 2005

>Bob Nichols is the husband of Grace Paley. He is a wonderfully funny man who also is a writer. During my recent workshop with…

>I travel overseas often, mostly to Asia but in 2004 also to Central America and Europe. Not since the 70’s, when I first went…

>I’ve been working on yet another revision to my novel. When it was my MFA thesis, it was described as “complex” and “ambitious,” and…