PERPETUAL FOLLY

You may have noticed that I haven't been posting much lately. That's partly because I've been swamped and partly because I...

[This is the 6 th installment in my Year of the LitMag Feature. If you are interested in writing about an issue of a literary magazine,...

February 6, 2012: “ Los Gigantes ” by T. Coraghessan Boyle Q&A with T.C. Boyle  (As of 9:20 pm on 1/30, the Q&A isn't av...

Authors Unite is NOT a soccer team made up of writers (although that's not a bad idea). It is, instead, an index of Author Pages on F...

You may have heard—or maybe you haven’t—that given a choice, a writer should choose an Anglo-Saxon word over one with Latin roots. Or at...

I didn’t know Dan Chaon had a new book coming out until I read Benjamin Percy’s short preview in the February Esquire . It’s a collecti...

Year of the LitMag: Prairie Schooner, Winter 2011 Vol. 85, No. 4 Ireland The Winter 2011 issue of Prairie Schooner probably won...

January 30, 2012: “ Someone ” by Alice McDermott In the Q&A with Alice McDermott , we learn that this “story” is taken from her ...

Tips for Writers: Invest in Style And I’m not talking fashion here (although take a look at the article in The Atlantic about Joan ...

Happy New Year! Actually, the new year begins January 23, but since President Obama has already released his Lunar New Year Message , I ...

Issue No. 17 of Prime Number Magazine went live today! (That's the 7th issue, if anyone's counting: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17) We ...

The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey will be published later this month. Margot is a terrific writer, and I suspect this will be a...

January 23, 2012: “ Labyrinth ” by Roberto Bolaño The Q&A with Barbara Eppler, Bolaño’s first American Publisher , is interestin...

Starting today, for one week only, I am the Guest Editor at Smokelong Quarterly, one of the very best magazines around that focuses on fla...

[Note: this is the 4 th  installment in my Year of the LitMag series. If you would like to contribute to the series, leave a comment bel...

Last week I wrote that it is important to read—books and literary magazines. We not only learn from reading good work in our chosen genr...