>Jim Tomlinson Interviewed

>Susan Henderson has a nice interview with Jim Tomlinson, author of Things Kept, Things Left Behind, on LitPark this week.

>It appears that novelist James Webb has defeated incumbent Senator George Allen in an extremely close race here in Virginia. I’ve been wrapped up…

>Workshop

>Our workshops met today in the Queens library. Our group, meeting with Don Lee, was excellent, and first we heard a little about how…

>Friday at the Queensalumnithing

>We were off this morning. Originally the time was meant for manuscript preparation, but since we got the manuscripts ahead of time, some of…

>Arrival

>The trip down to Charlotte was beautiful–a sunny day, golden leaves on the mountains. If not for all the traffic it would have been…

>On the Road

>I’m taking a little trip tomorrow, down to Charlotte, N.C., for the very first Queens University of Charlotte MFA Alumni Program. In addition to…

>Too bad they don’t live in Virginia . . .

>Ploughshares has been operating a blog for a while now, and recently brought to their readers’ attention the anti-illectual nonsense being spewed by the…

>Bare Breasted Mama

>My friend Gail Konop Baker has started a new column, Bare Breasted Mama, at Literary Mama, about her experience earlier this year with breast…

>Old Poets

> Old Poetsnever die;they justcometo the endof their line.

>Six Little Things

>I don’t pay enough attention to online literary magazines, and I don’t really love reading long stories online. But “little things,”–short shorts, flash, prose…