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April 6, 2013

The Tom Wolfe Lecture at Washington & Lee: Jennifer Egan

Tom Wolfe, a distinguished alumnus of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, returns each year to host the Tom Wolfe Lecture, a series…

March 20, 2013

Midge Raymond, author of Forgetting English, interviews me on her blog: Q&A with Clifford Garstang. Thanks, Midge!

March 18, 2013

My friend Katrina Denza has just read my book, What the Zhang Boys Know, and asked to interview me on her blog. Here is the…

February 24, 2013

I was honored that artist and calligrapher Terry Coffey wanted to use the opening line from my book, In an Uncharted Country, as part…

February 20, 2013

If you’ve ever finished a novel, you remember the euphoria of typing “The End,” even if you knew the next phase was going to…

February 16, 2013

We are now being told that short story collections are all the rage. A story from yesterday’s New York Times is circulating among writers…

February 15, 2013

Half Moon Street: Two Short Novels by Paul Theroux was an enjoyable read. (Or listen, actually, as I heard the book in the car.) I’m…

February 14, 2013

I feel a little silly including this book in a blog of my reading for the year, but, hey, it’s a book, I read…

February 13, 2013

I had the great pleasure on Sunday night to be part of a reading in the city of Roanoke called the One Night Standing…

February 12, 2013

I’m not a reader of mysteries, honestly. I’ve been reading some now and then to see what I can learn from them about plot,…