Over at the Litblog Co-op, they’re discussing Alan DeNiro’s collection of short stories Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead. Later on in the week they’ll interview Alan, but for now there is some discussion about the wide range of literary journals where his work has appeared (from One Story to Electric Velocipede), as […]
On the whole, this New York Times article does well at chronicling the loss of print outlets for book reviews and the rise of online attention to books in the form of blogs. They have quotes from many litbloggers, from Ed to Mark and more. David L. Ulin concedes the advantages of blogs. But then, […]
So yes, I admit, I’m a sucker for Tolkien (maybe it’s the triple initials). I read the trilogy plus the prequel The Hobbit back in fourth grade, though I haven’t read all of them every year since then, like my brother has. And Tolkien’s most recent posthumous offering, The Children of Hurin, which was compiled […]
BookFox has nearly reached the ripe old age of One year, and, as I look back on my year of blogging, I find it interesting how this form of writing has affected my other writing. In addition to blogging, I am a short story writer. When it’s all added up, I have written fewer fiction […]
David Quammen has the uncommon knack of turning arcane biological knowledge into intriguing narratives. But, alas, his newest book (The Long Follow: J. Michael Fay’s Epic Trek across the Last Great Forests of Central Africa) is AWOL. Chapters Indigo doesn’t list a publication date, and Booktopia lists it as March 2007. Unfortunately, the prognosis is […]
Last week I wasn’t very busy posting, but I was busy reading. I read three books – the first a collection of short stories by Alice Munro called Runaway. It’s easy to see why she receives such acclaim as a writer – it’s because she pens such classic stories, ones that transcend her Canadian place […]
I recently interviewed author Tara Ison, who just published her second novel, The List. We talked about the experience of writing The List in comparison to A Child Out of Alcatraz (her first novel), her relationship to Los Angeles, and partying on the roof of the Holiday Inn. BookFox: The two main characters in “The […]
T.C. Boyle is a remarkably entertaining writer, and I don’t mean that pejoratively at all – no nasty connotations like only entertaining, or entertaining to the detriment of style or plot. No, he just writes stories that are word/plot candy, and I stay up late gorging myself on them. Last night I was reading […]
In an era marked by the short story’s loss of cultural heft, Charles D’Abrosio’s collection of stories makes that loss seem tragic. The name of this short story collection by Charles D’Abrosio is taken from the title story, in which an immigrant wife can’t pronounce the word refrigerator, so she calls it the dead fish […]
Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and winner of the Man Booker Prize, has been writing political nonfiction for the last ten years, but now is working on a new novel. (hat tip to Laila Lalami) Now that all the discussion on Wizard of the Crow is over, check out the three […]
