Later today I’ll be flying to Denver’s AWP conference. This will be my first time going, although I don’t quite know how I’ve missed going previous years (okay, okay, I know: I was poor). Michael Chabon will be headlining, and I’ve already picked out a slate of seminars to attend, including “Ellipsis as Art: Crafting […]
I love that the Tournament of Books ended in a similar manner to March Madness: just as the underdog Butler put up a valiant fight against top-seeded Duke, Duke edged past by a single point. And in the Tournament of Books, we had the juggernaut “Wolf Hall” against the formidable “The Lacuna,” and the judges […]
I went to the Hibbleton Art Gallery in Fullerton recently, and found they’re showcasing handmade books and journals. I love finding hand-stitched literature like this. It’s the underground movement of books, where a ‘small release’ means 30 copies, not a thousand copies. It’s probably organic AND local. Especially loved the palm-sized books, since the paper was […]
Usually I avoid memes like the plague, but I got sucked into this one. This notion of listing the books that have affected you the most has been making the rounds, and I'm going to play along. Hope some of these surprise you. Also, once you've read mine, go check out the NY Times, Marginal […]
I’m excited to go to AWP in Denver, Colorado this year and provide some on-the-ground BookFox coverage. If you’re going and want to meet up, email me before or during. Otherwise, looking forward to seeing you there. Also, my housing plans fell through. Anybody need a roommate?
An impressive line-up for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Other than the usual suspects of local Southern California authors, we have some heavyweights: Andre Aciman Mark Danielewski Dave Eggers Bret Easton Ellis Yann Martel Maile Meloy Colson Whitehead Elizabeth Crane Congrats to the organizers for putting together such a great lineup. Also, […]
Ingo Schulze’s short story collection “One More Story” was preceded by “33 Moments of Happiness,” a collection about St. Petersberg, and the novel “New Lives.” Critics consider Schulze the voice of post-unification Germany, a rather ironic mantle since Schulze slept through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. His latest collection, “One More Story,” […]
The Atlantic is going to start publishing fiction again. So no more of those newstand-only summer fiction issues (which were good, though, especially the 2008 one that highlighted emerging authors). Instead, a supplement will accompany the May issue that will include half a dozen short stories and — obligatory for all American magazines, for every […]
I’ve been loving the latest issue of Granta. If you want a sneak peak, read Daniel Alarcon’s “Life Among the Pirates,” which offers a Peruvian view on book piracy. Apparently, pirates earn more money than the publishers do, and sometimes have spies in foreign publishing houses that steal translations. Plus, the police can’t mop it […]
A torrent of new online fiction came out this week. Kyle Minor has the short story "The Truth and All Its Ugly" out on Harper Collins Fifty-Two stories. You all know I have a man-crush on Minor since reading his sizzling debut collection, "In the Devil's Territory," so hoof it on over there. Five Chapters […]
