>Marc Fitten’s Indie 100

>Lots of authors go on book tours, although there is much discussion about how effective touring is. Marc Fitten has started his tour in…

>Top 50 [Very] Short Fiction

>Check out Wigleaf’s Top 50 [Very] Short Fiction 2009 which just went up. The pieces chosen are all flashes from the web.

>The Subversive Copy Editor

>Publisher’s Weekly calls The Subversive Copy Editor the “best copy editor’s companion since the [Chicago Manual of Style]” in their Web Exclusive Review for…

>Andrew’s Book Club May Picks

>Okay, I have to confess that I’m still reading the April picks, but here comes Andrew, right on time, with May picks for Andrew’s…

>Pinckney Benedict in Image Journal

>Image Journal profiles Pinckney Benedict, and prints his story, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, also forthcoming in New Stories from the South.

>Buy Indie

>Today is International Buy Indie Day, on which we are encouraged to buy a book (or two) from an Independent Bookstore. If you don’t…

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>Gardening

>New experience this year. I tried a garden when I first moved into this house in 2001, but I didn’t know what I was…

>"Books That Will Make You a Better Man"

>I think Esquire is kind of a waste of paper these days, but they practically give the thing away–right now, online, you can subscribe…