Many thanks to Rachel Resnick for her brilliant guest blogger stint here at BookFox. Very profilic on the interviews, for which we’re grateful. A few more one-off guest posts will be offered at the beginning of this upcoming week, after which I will be slinging myself back from Guatemala to the States and resume full […]
Lights up for the Love Junkie’s final guest blog at BookFox. What better way to bow out than by choreographing an improvisational duet with two Cali short story masters? Lisa Teasley’s stunning debut book GLOW IN THE DARK won the 2002 Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection. She also won the 2002 Pacificus […]
For anyone out there who still thinks L.A. isn’t literary, here are a few recent random encounters. At a groovy Fourth of July party in Nichols Canyon, I struck up a conversation with a man who turned out to’ve spent eight years in San Quentin. Now he’s a screenwriter. Name of John Carlen. “You know […]
Once again, I shuck my Rachel Resnick identity and morph into BookFox. As promised, I finagled an e-mail exchange with super-talented Seth Greenland. I met Seth the first time at a Los Angeles Times Book Festival panel about the Hollywood novel I moderated in 2005. When I read THE BONES to prepare for the panel, […]
Back to getting foxy with books. I’m digging this guest blogging business! So I’ve had the pleasure of attending a couple of swanky book parties the previous two evenings. Last night was one for Seth Greenland, whose new critically acclaimed and hysterically funny book SHINING CITY launches today. Seth will be our BookFox guest for […]
John Fox, a most excellent writer I have had the pleasure of teaching over at USC, has kindly invited me to guest blog. Thanks, John! Kudos to him for launching a blog that focuses on the short story form. I have been teaching writing since 1995, and I have always believed that mastering this short […]
Jhumpa Lahiri took the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award outright, bypassing a shortlist. The longlisted authors surely must feel some disappointment that not even a shortlist was announced, because shortlisting can help boost the profile of a short story writer and increase sales. Apparently the judges were so certain they did not want to […]
Since this is a short story blog, I thought I’d write a bit about literary theories of the short story. I should confess that I am not the BookFox, and probably not even worthy of the title BookWeasel. Right there I was going for an animal slightly less smart (and slightly more smarmy) than a […]
So I am playing Trivial Pursuit on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala and find this question: What organ did 500 Iranians offer to sell in order to finance the fatwa against Salman Rushdie? Okay, so you probably got it: their kidneys. But I just found the whole organ-selling angle to be a unique way to fund […]
I visited an art show in Antigua yesterday. It was called “Los Deseparecidos” or “The Disappeared.” Each of the installations focused on a particular heinous act in South or Central America. The disappearances in Argentina, the massacres in Columbia, Pinochet in Chile, the dictatorship in Uruguay, martial law in Venezuala. A video showed two men […]
