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My review of Jim Krusoe’s "Girl Factory" is up at California Literary Review. Also, despite a harried schedule, the second half of the LA Times Festival of Books author videos (many more great answers, same authors) should be up by late tomorrow.

RedFence: Festival of Books – Author Interviews from James Roland on Vimeo. John Fox interviews T.C. Boyle, Judith Freeman, Marianne Wiggins, Mark Sarvas, Tristine Rainer, Shelley Jackson, Steve Erickson, Aimee Bender, Keith Gessen, and Richard Lange.

Mark Sarvas Photography by Benjamin Ross www.redfenceproject.com www.smokeringgraphics.com Lydia Millet Keith Gessen Marianne Wiggins Ray Bradbury

RedFence: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books – Day One from RedFence on Vimeo.

Panelists: Rob Spillman (editor of Tin House, and moderator, and the only non-female) Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Kelly Link – Shelley Jackson Miranda Mellis Aimee Bender (pictured — photo credit, Ben Ross) First off, no one on the panel knew exactly what Slipstream meant. Although that’s not really any discredit to them, seeing as how the […]

So I’m thrilled to go to the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend, where I’ll get to see a bunch of friends I haven’t seen for a while and reconnect with some great authors. I’ve got a couple of things going. First of all, I have — in my editing-grooved, keyboard-calloused hands — the […]

Stephen Corey, editor of the Georgia Review, wrote a piece for the May/June Poets & Writers. Here’s an excerpt in which he quantifies the shifts he’s seen with nonfiction, poetry, and short stories: Well, more people are sending out and publishing what they now call (forgive us, Father Montaigne) “creative nonfiction.” In the mid-1980s we […]

Over at Fence there’s a exchange between the editor and a contributor that devolves incredibly quickly into rather shameless namecalling (via Chekhov’s Mistress). Despite the nastiness, I have to say that just getting any response from an editor of a literary journal is difficult, so an editor responding multiple times should earn at least some […]

Just on the heels of turning eighty and putting out a new collection of short stories, Cynthia Ozick is raking in the prizes. She was just awarded the PEN/Malamud prize for short fiction, as well as the PEN/Nabokov prize. Both are lifetime acheivement awards, which is not only quite an honor, but also conveys the […]

Nathaniel Rich, the editor of “The Paris Review” and recent author of “The Mayor’s Tongue,” has a new short story over at Five Chapters called “Trainchasers.” More Nathaniel Rich at the LA Times, as part of a trio of recent authors who have written books where characters are defiantly proud of print journals. It’s been […]