I have an essay about Brad Vice’s debut story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train–covering both the controversy and the merits of the stories themselves–in the current issue of Oxford American Magazine. Vice himself has also written a piece for the issue.
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Ward 6
A new issue of Ward 6 is now online, with poetry by Nancy Mitchell, Jennifer Hill-Kaucher, Mark DeCarteret, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Kerschbaum, J.D. Nelson, Jack Conway, Marge Piercy, and James R. Whitley, and fiction by Ron Burch, Ethan P. Swann, and Nick Ostdick, along with a review of recent books by two Irish poets.
the feel of the pen
Empires fall, votes are accorded, but to those people writing in the circular room it is the feel of the pen between their fingers that matters most. E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
25 million dead
Today is World AIDS day. New reports by New reports by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that, as of 2006, the epidemic continues to spread in every region of the world. By now more than 65 million people have been infected with HIV and well over 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981, 2.9 million in 2006 alone. At this rate, the WHO predicts that in the next 25 years another 117 million people will die, making AIDS the third leading cause of death worldwide.” UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that,...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
