>Siam

>by Lily Tuck In 1967, Claire meets James on an airplane, they have sex, they get married, and because he is attached to the…

>Collection

>Since I began writing short stories in the last semester of my MFA program (once the novel was finished–hah!) I’ve been aiming toward a…

>The Writer’s Desk . . .

>is a mess. Not really, but it could be neater. Which is why I’m alway looking looking for storage solutions. Not long ago I…

>The Sea

>By John Banville The Sea, which won the Man Booker prize last year, is a beautiful disappointment. The novel tells a story that is…

>Pseudonyms

>Need to know John LeCarre’s real name? Curious what other names Joyce Carol Oates has used? Check out the Pseudonym Dictionary.

>New Stories from the South–2006

>For those of us who live in the South, the annual Algonquin series New Stories from the South, sort of a regional BASS, is…

>Litmag Reviews at Moorishgirl.com

>Check out Katrina Denza’s Litmag Reviews at MoorishGirl.

>More Litmags

>The Yale Review is not one of my favorites. It tends to be heavily academic, with just two short stories per issue. The current…

>God Lives in St. Petersburg

>by Tom Bissell This collection of stories was an enjoyable read, mostly because the territory was familiar to me from my own experience—the Central…

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