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…Continue reading Tin House “Off the Grid” Theme Issue
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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…Continue reading lists
fog thrills, plus good reading in periodicals
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…Continue reading fog thrills, plus good reading in periodicals
Hum
The summer issue of The Missouri Review is now out, featuring an interview with Sam Shepard, as well as fiction by Benjamin Percy, Kate Chase, Molly McNett, and yours truly (my story is entitled “Hum.”)
telling stories, plus good wax
Benedict Cary has an intriguing essay on the science of stories–how we tell them, and what they say about us–in the New York Times. “Any life story is by definition a retrospective reconstruction, at least in part an outgrowth of native temperament.” (This interests me in part because of its thematic connection to The Year…Continue reading telling stories, plus good wax