Ed Champion interviews Carrie A.A. Frye and Yannick Murphy. Also, the new of Gulf Coast is now out. A meaty, 280-page affair featuring, among other things, a review of Holiday Reinhorn’s story collection Big Cats. She was one of twelve of us living in the fellows’ house at Sewanee about three years ago. Good writer,…Continue reading bat segundo #41, & the dwight shrute bobblehead
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failbetter
The new issue of Failbetter is up, featuring an interview with Ann Tyler, short fiction by Benjamin Krier and Kevin Sampsell (it is my humble duty to promote all Kevins, as I married one), and art by Shawn McNulty. Plus they sell this great bib for $6.99.
very short
When Mark Budman of Vestal Review asked me for a short-short, I was happy to comply. The magazine publishes stories of 500 words or fewer. My story collection contains several very short stories, but none this short. It turned out to be quite a challenge whittling a story down to so few words, but it…Continue reading very short
Rick Bass on shyness
Rick Bass has a wonderful nonfiction piece in the new issue of Narrative Magazine about what it means to be shy: When you’re shy, and a writer, it’s not the same as being just, say, shy and a mechanic, or shy and a typist: I mean, people know you’re watching them. It’s like you’ve lost…Continue reading Rick Bass on shyness
mama smarts
Andi Buchanan, managing editor of the hip online mama mag Literary Mama, has a new book out, Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, which she co-edited with Amy Hudock (Seal Press, Jan. 2006). This compendium of work gleaned from the magazine features well-known and beginning writers tackling motherhood from many different angles, from adoption…Continue reading mama smarts