>Jim Webb’s Fiction

>I’ve mentioned here before that our Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Virginia, Jim Webb, is a novelist, writing mostly war stories from…

>Men’s Journal Recommends

>I’m generally disturbed by the short shrift men’s magazines give to books. They publish little or no fiction and spend far more time on…

>Harvard and Poetry

>There are two interesting articles about poetry in Harvard Magazine this month (not to be confused with 02138, discussed here recently). One is about…

>Historical Novel Society

>My friend Sarah Park Rankin has been invited to participate on a panel at the 2007 Annual Conference of the Historical Novel Society. I…

>Hiatus Ends

>If you have visited in the last week you may have noticed inactivity. That’s because I was away. I had a nice trip to…

>Noo Journal

>Issue 5 of Noo Journal is now online. Time to check it out!

>Interview with Robert Vivian

>Katrina Denza interviews Robert Vivian, author of The Mover of Bones.

>Rain Taxi Fall 2006

>The new print issue of Rain Taxi is available and the new online issue is, um, online. This is a terrific magazine of reviews,…

>Coping with Rejection

>It would be nice if rejection didn’t happen, but it does. Getting rejection letters (or emails, or badly photocopied scraps of paper with no…

>New Feature

>One of the drawbacks of Blogger has been the lack of categories, which makes finding old posts difficult. Since my “LitMag Wave” reviews of…