One Story’s blog, Save the Short Story, alerted me to newest short story podcasting site, Sniplits. The idea behind the name, I believe, is that while listening to audio books in the car doesn’t allow you enough continuity to enter the dream-like experience of the novel, a snippet of literature — such as a short […]
So a long time ago, back when a different journal was being published at USC, someone accepted a poem for the literary journal from a prisoner. Just some incarcerated guy that mailed in a typewritten poem. While it seems a kind of noble and liberating idea (giving some locked-up men a voice!), it actually was […]
So Nam Le’s short story collection “The Boat” comes out today, and after reading it over the past month, it seems he’s going to give Chris Adrian competition for best debut of 2008 (yes, I know Adrian’s published before, but “A Better Angel” is his first collection). Le’s got geographical range, that’s for sure, both […]
Although I missed the initial salvo of reports about the short story panel at PEN World Voices Festival, it’s worth checking out this summary from Stingy Kids, (and also Chekhov’s Mistress) to find out: – the pro-short-story state of Korea and how that’s changing to encourage novels instead – how an unrecognized Annie Proulx rose […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about a new software called CrossCheck, which is billed as a plagarism program. Most writers, who unlike academics are not quoting and paraphrasing, are hardly ever in danger of plagiarism. But the program actually goes one step beyond crosschecking other previously published articles, and also checks other […]
The 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the heftiest cash prize in the literary world for the short form (35,000 euros), has announced its longlist. Thirty-nine authors from around the globe are nominated. Only one Canadian was up (no, it wasn’t Alice Munro) as opposed to fourteen British writers (!). But the nice thing […]
storySouth now has the longlist for the 2007 Millions Writers award, celebrating the best of online fiction. The list of publications is especially helpful if you’re looking to read good fiction online or want to know which online publications (there are so many!) are good to send material to. The May issue of The Short […]
One of the last interviews we conducted at the LA Times Festival of Books was with Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King and an accomplished horror writer in his own right. Joe Hill and I talked about the difference between conceptual horror and horror of the act, as well as how the Vietnam and […]
As the Literary Saloon notes, Michel Houellebecq’s MOM has written a book about him. And it doesn’t sound nice. I don’t want to be this old when I publish my first book. (Also, I really don’t want it to rhyme.) From the Guardian, Jonathan Franzen has called Michiko Kakutani, the lead fiction reviewer for the […]
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