I’m afraid I’m on a diverse reading schedule these days. It’s never: Read One Book Then Start Another. At last count, I think I was getting through about 10 short story collections/novels. I just have one story left in both Mary Gaitskill‘s new book “Don’t Cry” and in Daniyal Mueenuddin “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.” […]
The Official AWP website. Hobart is blogging the event. Best American Poetry will have updates through the end of the week. Chicago Literary Scene Examiner is hot on the literary scene. A bunch of AWP pictures of authors and miscellany on Flickr. Inside Higher Ed has a post up and more to come. Barrelhouse Magazine […]
In you are not in Chicago in the dead of winter enjoying AWP, and are in Los Angeles which has seen a spell of rain but also some temps in the 70s, consider checking out Ray Bradbury at the Beverly Hills Library on Friday. He’s launching a new collection of short fiction, “We’ll Always Have […]
B&N Review has a piece by Paul Di Filippo on the state of short stories, specifically genre short stories. It starts: If at any given moment short fiction is not actually experiencing a Golden Age, it is always seen to be dying. Critics, authors, publishers, editors, readers — even sociologists! — engage (or should that […]
If the recession/depression has you pinching pennies, check out audible.com, the iTunes of short stories. To celebrate four weeks of short story month, Audible has lots of stories for 99 cents. But if you just want to read the stories, not listen to them, both the Fitzgerald Benjamin Button story and the Junot Diaz story […]
I just moved the RSS feed for BookFox from Feedburner to Google. The transition should be seamless, but if you have problems, let me know — johnmattfox AT hotmail DOT com If you don’t follow BookFox via RSS, please join by clicking the button in the upper left hand column, or, if you prefer, insert […]
I heard on NPR yesterday that one of the sticking points in the stimulus package is funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). $50 million of the $819 billion (.06 %) is slated for the organization. Here’s the debate: Jack Kingston, a Republican Representative from Georgia, advocated shifting the proposed NEA funding into […]
Some postmodern fun: a novel told entirely in the second person. I’m hearing echoes of “Upon a Winter’s Night a Traveler…” I like what Harper Perennial is doing with their fifty-two stories site that publishes a new short story weekly — it’s all a build-up to the summer, when they’re releasing six new short story […]
Daniyal Mueenuddin just made a pit-stop here in L.A. to promote his collection “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” which has been making waves. I couldn’t go to the reading at Vromans because I had to teach a night class of creative nonfiction, but I’m going to catch up with him soon. So until then, I […]
The first YouTube literary journal. And probably not the last. The disadvantages (of which the article lists few) and the advantages of authors branding themselves. If your sorrow for John Updike’s passing has not abated yet, you could always buy a T-shirt with his face on it from Flatmancrooked, a site which besides selling Updike-themed […]
