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>I’m a planner and a list-maker. Sometimes that’s true in my writing, but mostly it applies to me as a traveler. When I was…

>Now that I have your attention, Jim Ruland is blogging about his great little story collection, Big Lonesome by discussing each of the stories…

>Normally I only comment here on the fiction in The New Yorker or, occasionally, on a book review. If there’s something interesting in the…

>Several new installments of The Bat Segundo Show are up, including a visit with William Gibson.

>No question about it: rejection sucks. But it’s part of the process every writer, even established writers, must go through. You send your work…

>The new issue of Failbetter.com is up, with work from Jeffrey Lent, Daniel Alarcon and others. Definitely looks promising.

>I am very saddened to learn of the death of Grace Paley, a terrific writer of fiction, poetry and essays, but also one of…

> Opium Magazine has announced the finalists in the 500-Word Memoir Contest and somehow I slipped into the group without anyone noticing. The winner…

>Dzanc Books continues to exite us. I somehow missed this announcement when it was first made, but in any case I’ve just learned that…

>Thanks to Dan Wickett of Emerging Writers Network and Dzanc Books, I’m now aware of Goodsearch.com, a search tool from Yahoo that contributes money…