Please join us for the first reading of the new anthology The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, and Pulling It All Together in Your Thirties, edited by Nicki Richesin. Each contributor will read for three minutes, followed by a panel. We’ll be taking questions and comments from the audience, of course.
Where: A [...]
The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. It will be awarded to an outstanding piece of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. (Please note that the prize is meant to encourage experimental writing, in the [...]
This week on the Girlfriends’ Cyber Circuit: Tanya Stone, debut author of the young adult novelA Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (hmm, I suspected as much!), just out from Random House. Here’s what Tanya had to say about the musical accompaniment to her novel:
There actually is a real live soundtrack! My hubby [...]
City Lights, April 6, 7:00 p.m. One swank writer at one classy bookstore. Susan will be reading from her second book, Hydroplane. You don’t want to miss this book. You don’t want to miss Susan. Plus, when is there ever a good reason not to hang out at City Lights? Grab a pizza at [...]
I’m doing a guest spot for Mark Sarvas today over at The Elegant Variation. Discussed: what it means to be thirty (never having to eat Pink Cloud).
I’ll be guest-blogging for Mark Sarvas tomorrow at Elegant Variation, talking about The May Queen, edited by Nicki Richesin and just out from Tarcher/Putnam. The May Queen features essays from 27 female writers, artists, and filmmakers on the subject of being in one’s thirties. Fellow contributors Megan Daum (The Quality of Life Report, My Misspent [...]
I have plenty of reasons to be excited about GCC memberJohanna Edwards, not the least of which is that she put Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Isaak, and the White Stripes on her Literary Soundtrack:
It’s Your Thing -The Isley Brothers
Bohemian Like You -The Dandy Warhols
An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
We Used to Be Friends -The Dandy [...]
This article in Time Magazine describes the death of 15 civilians at the hands of Marines in Haditha, Iraq, last November. A number of the victims were women and children; the youngest was only two years old. In light of this event, in addition to Abu Ghraib (which strangely seems to have been pretty much [...]
Rachel Deahl reports for Publishers Weekly that Slate is launching its new fiction section with a serialized novel by Walter Kirn titled The Unbinding:
Kirn’s novel is intended to make inventive use of its format while ruminating on how the Internet shapes our culture. As such, the unfolding story is being presented as a series of [...]
I ran into Alex Parsons in Austin last week, which reminded me that I’d yet to mention his second novel, In the Shadows of the Sun, here. This follow-up to Leaving Disneyland, which won the 2000 AWP Award for the novel, was nominated for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2005 National [...]
