Monthly Archives: May 2008

summer reading

May 31, 2008
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The San Francisco Chronicle lists “titles of interest” coming out in the next couple of months. Among them, Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark (I’ll be interviewing Auster in September for City Arts and Lectures), Jack Pendarvis’s Awesome (read it! Jack’s an old friend of mine from Alabama, we met in a place called The Haunted Bookshop in Mobile when I was 18 years old, one day I’ll write about it here), Ellen Sussman’s anthology Dirty Words: An Encyclopedia of Sex (which has been getting lots of press and which landed Ellen in Penthouse), Andre Dubus II’s The Garden...

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california

May 30, 2008
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My nice, Camille, who is a freshman at School of the Arts in San Francisco, made this for KQED’s digital storytelling contest. Go, Camille! See other Bay Area high school students’ digital film takes on the state of the state here. While you’re there, take a couple of minutes to watch Pacifica student Jovel Queirolo’s affecting piece, Mom’s Side, which uses old photographs to trace Queirolo’s mother’s journey from China during the Cultural Revolution to the Golden Gate.

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Fineline Competition

May 29, 2008
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Monday, June 2, is the postmark deadline for the Mid-American Review‘s annual contest for prose poem and short shorts, or any prose work 500 words or less. First prize is $1000 + publication. Ten additional finalists will also be named, with a chance for publication in the fall issue. This year’s judge is Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of At the Drive-in Volcano and Miracle Fruit (both on Tupelo Press). To enter, send up to 4 pieces of prose, 500 words or less each. Entry fee is $10–send check or m.o., made out to “Mid-American Review.” 2008 Fineline Competition Mid-American Review...

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titlepalooza

May 28, 2008
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I haven’t read litblogs for a while, but taking a spin past The Millions this morning, I remembered why I used to. See Garth’s expert advice on “How to Title Your Novel: The Abstraction of Abstraction.”

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love (& stuff like it) is in the air

May 23, 2008
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Would you do this with your car? No? Maybe you just haven’t found the right, um, vehicle. Don’t eat the toad resin, no matter how much you want to impress a lady. The wife of a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in March 2007 is offering a reward for information about his whereabouts. “I do believe he’s alive and safe somewhere in Iran,” she said…Earlier this month, she marked the second wedding anniversary since her husband’s disappearance. The couple have seven children, ages 14 to 31. Robert Levinson apparently went missing while conducting a private investigation...

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