Monthly Archives: January 2007

bad theft

January 23, 2007
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Here’s the funniest heist story ever, and it’s not a movie. It took place in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights. According to the Chronicle, the thieves made away with 2.5 million dollars in goods while the homeowner (an heir to a locksmithing fortune!), was away. Neighbors thought the thieves were movers. Soon thereafter, one of the thieved knocked on the door of the house he’d burglarized, claiming to have found the man’s stolen property at a flea market. Read the full story for zany details. If this were a movie, it would star Owen Wilson. The exercise: Write about a...

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first review for THE YEAR OF FOG

January 22, 2007
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I’m happy to report that I can breathe a bit easier now that the first review is in for THE YEAR OF FOG (March). From Publisher’s Weekly: “In this spare page-turner, Richmond draws complex tensions from the set-up of a child gone missing…The book’s twist on missing child stories is wholly effective. The book is beautifully paced–one feels Abby’s clarity of purpose from the first page. The sure-handed denouement reflects the focus and restraint that Richmond brings to bear throughout.” The entire review is available here. Reviewed in the same issue: Wang in Love and Bondage: Three Novellas, by...

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kenyon review links

January 21, 2007
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I just received the latest Kenyon Review newsletter today, and a quick trip to the website reminded me that KR has a great list of litmags up–very useful if you’re in the submission zone.

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last night at the Rickshaw Stop

January 19, 2007
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Last night at Inside Storytime, Karl Soehnlein read the sexiest story ever, about a gay guy who’s jonesing for his girl roommate Lou. Taelur Kim read his hilarious story, “Rock War,” a parable about a girl who gets herself invited to the boys’ weekly battle and proceeds to run the show–I heard this story at Taelur’s graduate reading at CCA, and it was just as good the second time around. Lolly Winston read her wonderful story “Only Some People” about the ill-matched Mr. & Mrs. B., which ends with a lovely line involving a parachute. Offstage, Lolly’s brother tagged...

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for the love of chickens

January 18, 2007
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Jennie Durant, who’s recently arrived in the Philippines on a Fullbright, pens an ode to chickens. She recommends a documentary called The Natural History of Chickens. Apparently, a man cut his chicken’s head off and it ran around for awhile—but didn’t stop. Shocked by this Lazarus of a chicken, he decided to see if it would continue to live. He fed the little chicken with an eye dropper, and apparently the wound healed over and the chicken lived for some time (almost two years, I think?) touring around the country as a famous, living, headless chicken. I know the...

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