Archive for May, 2009
The Los Angeles Times compared Marc Fitten’s “penchant for sweeping allegory” to Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe before mentioning Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and M. Glenn Taylor. Fitten’s debut novel Valeria’s Last Stand, set in an imaginary Hungarian village, is, the Times continued, “at first glance a tale of love and lust but from a distance is clearly a symbolic rendering of the benefits and drawbacks of switching from a socialist to a market economy.”
You can read “The Paprika Ewer,” an excerpt from Valeria’s Last Stand, on Fictionaut.
Rediscovered Reading is a new regular series in which Matt Briggs reviews overlooked collections of short fiction. Matt is the author of Shoot the Buffalo and other books. He blogs at mattbriggs.wordpress.com.
Farrar Straus and Giroux published Rick Rofihe’s great collection of stories Father Must in 1991. Nine of the stories in the collection had appeared in the New Yorker during the waning days of minimalism in the late eighties. Rofihe’s collection, it seems, has never been issued in paper but acceptable hardback copies can be found for about two bucks plus shipping and handling.
We are thrilled to announce that Richard Eoin Nash has joined Frederick Barthelme, Lauren Cerand, Marcy Dermansky, Alex Glass, Lizzie Skurnick, and John Minichillo on the Fictionaut Board of Advisors.
I am against social networking sites but I am for them. I have made no secret of my opinion.
Emerging Writers Network has declared May “Short Story Month” and taken the opportunity to post dozens of reviews, guest posts, and “story mix tapes.” Matt Bell and Blake Butler get in on the action.
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Jim Hanas is serializing his story “The Arab Bank,” which is set during the festival, until May 24.
At Largehearted Boy, Ben Greenman talks to musician Rhett Miller about work, life, and Charles Manson.
Brendan Halpin is the author of novels for both adults (Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Donorboy) and young adults (Forever Changes, How Ya Like Me Now.) His latest — and possibly last — book for grown-ups is I Can See Clearly Now, the story of a group of idealistic musicians who, in 1972, hole up in a New York studio to record songs for an educational TV show. Publishers Weekly called the book “clever and infectious.”
“How satisfying to watch Erlbaum survive adolescence and produce a smart, engaging book,” The New York Times Book Review wrote about Janice Erlbaum’s memoir Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir. In 2008, Janice chronicled her return to the shelter where she had lived as a teenager in Have You Found Her.
This Friday, she will host the ten-year-anniversary of Girls Education and Mentoring Service (GEMS) at the Bowery Poetry Club.
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