I met Georges and Anne Borchardt at Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2003. The couple co-founded their literary agency in 1967, and are known for introducing American audiences to the work of Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Pierre Bourdieu, Marguerite Duras, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Eugene Ionesco, Jacques Lacan, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Elie Wiesel.
When [...]
Jason Roberts compiled writers’ reflections on John Updike today for The Rumpus. There are contributions by Andrew Sean Greer, Andrew Foster Altschul, Rick Moody, and yours truly, among others.
Vestal Review Web Issue 34 is up, featuring the flash stories of Marcia Aldrich, Ana Marcela Fuentes, Tammy Guzman, Kyle Hemmings and Ladisa Quintanilla.
For the June Glimmer Train bulletin, I wrote about how I called it quits 300 pages into a novel I was writing a couple of years ago, and, suddenly freed, I began writing a completely different book, which would become No One You Know.
Read it here. I also wrote a longer piece for [...]
Today in Publisher’s Lunch…this looks funny! I can already see the film adaptation. In the time-honored Hollywood tradition of thirty-somethings playing teenagers, I see a starring role for Casey Affleck and one of the ladies from Gossip Girl. Matthew McConaughey in his breakout performance as the principal.
Larry Doyle’s second novel GO, MUTANTS!, set in an [...]
I luhrv this spiffy online journal, Hobart, which I just discovered this morning, as of five minutes ago, which makes it the first literary journal I have “discovered” before 4:45 a.m. It appears to be published monthly. The design is simple and delightful. Apparently they do print issues too. I’ve been up for quite some [...]
A few weeks ago, the folks over at Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus asked me for a list of my favorite reads for their Dog Eared column. You can see a sample of my picks by going to www.visualthesaurus.com and looking at the right-hand column.
What’s Visual Thesaurus? It’s really cool website where language opens up in [...]
The deadline for submissions to Tin House’s Spring 2008 “Off the Grid” issue is November 1.
We’re looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by or about people or institutions that function (or don’t function) out of the bounds of “normal” society. For the “Lost & Found” section we are looking for brief appreciations of texts written [...]
Today I came across a poem by an old friend, JoLee Passerini, in the Crab Orchard Review. Back when I knew her, almost twenty years ago at the University of Alabama, she was JoLee Gibbons. We worked on the Marrs Field Journal together. That was when we all were getting our first tastes of literary [...]
This from the website of Newmarket Films, on the big screen adaptation of The Year of Fog:
The suspenseful thriller follows a young woman whose life is shattered when her soon-to-be step-daughter vanishes while in her care. The woman’s quest to find the girl becomes an obsession that takes her to the other side of the [...]
