Clifford Garstang is the author of six works of fiction including the novels The Last Bird of Paradise, Oliver’s Travels and The Shaman of Turtle Valley and the short story collections House of the Ancients and Other Stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, and In an Uncharted Country. He is also the editor of the acclaimed anthology series, Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet. A former international lawyer, he lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
>Also, if you look in the back of the crowd, you can see myself, my wife Jessica, Aaron Burch, Elizabeth Ellen, and Sanaz Kiesbye all hanging out– So Chuck wasn’t the only cool literary person around!
There was also an excellent reading by Donald Ray Pollock, which unfortunately it doesn’t look like the put on the webiste.
>Hey, that’s cool. Now I have to watch it again!