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I just received word my story "Autumn Leaves," previously published in Lynx Eye will appear in the August issue of the online journal Lily on August 1.

Also a prose poem will appear in the fabulous Salome on August 1.

Hiatus

I'll be traveling and spending time with family for the next three weeks. I'll be back sometime in the middle of August. In the meantime, I wish you much happiness, creativity, good reading, good writing, and good Karma.


Soksang...Santiphap...Keamana...Lumana...Fifa...Shanti...
Nye...Pokoj...Sula...Mir...Hau...Sidi...Pace...Fred...Taika...
Freiden...Hetep...Paix...Salaam...Patz...Pake...Peace

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Read Night Work by Felicia Sullivan.

Night Work is an stunning excerpt of Sullivan's Memoir which will be published by Algonquin in 2006.

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A poem by John Poch: Backward.

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I'm getting ready for our yearly trip to see family in Connecticut and a stay on the Cape. What books to bring? The trouble isn't so much WHAT to bring as it is how many. I average three books a week. I know on vacation I always read considerably less than I do at home. Funny, that. So my "to take" pile began at twenty. I managed to whittle it down to seventeen. Then yesterday I got brave and took out five more. So now I'll be taking twelve. A respectable number.

Anyway...these are my July reads PRE-vacation:




“Dreaming Water” by Gail Tsukiyama

“Little Children” by Tom Perrotta

“The Center of Winter” by Marya Hornbacher

“The Bright Forever” by Lee Martin

“Lost in the Forest” by Sue Miller

“Making It Up As I Go Along” by Maria T. Lennon

“O My Darling” by Amity Gaige


The Martin novel was an excellent study of the driving force in narrative; the Perotta novel was sadly hilarious; the Hornbacher novel was atmospheric; the Lennon Novel suprised me and was richer than I expected; and the Gaige novel was a study in language and character--tightly written.

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New work at Salome

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Try to guess the book to which these first literary lines belong:


Famous First Words.

(I got 9 right.)

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Read Baby Pictures by author Maryanne Stahl at Ink Pot.

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A short piece by Jai Clare in SmokeLong Quarterly.

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Writer Tom Saunders has recently joined the blog world. Saunders is the author of the excellent short story collection "Brother What Strange Place Is This?" and resides in England.

Look here soon for an interview.

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Got an extra $150 lying around???

Kirkus will take it off your hands: Kirkus Reviews/

Thanks to writer and poet Carol Peters for the original link.

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Novelist Tom Dolby presents a good argument against writers blogging the daily life: San Francisco Chronicle. I've had these same concerns which is one of the reasons I use my blog mostly for promotional purposes.

Thanks to Laila Lalami for the original link.

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New work by South African writer and poet Liesl Jobson at Salome.

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Fiction in Pindeldyboz from talented writer and editor Kyle Minor

Minor edits the new journal Frostproof Review and recently won first prize in the Atlantic Monthly for his essay "Lay Me Down in the Blue Grass."

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Here's a link to a unique and beautiful experience:

Night

Photos and writing by Joseph Young

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Elizabeth Glixman interviews Daphne Buter.

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View author M.J. Rose's vidlit for her new novel "The Halo Effect."

Thanks to Moorishgirl's Laila Lalami for the original link.

For every blog that links to the vidlit, Rose has pledged $5 to the nonprofit organization Reading is Fundamental

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Read a new nature essay by Myfanwy Collins at Moondance.

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Ayelet Waldman explores the darker side of motherhood in her fiction: Interview with her at Literary Mama.

Thanks to author Maryanne Stahl for the original link.

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New work at Salome

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The new issue of Mississippi Review, "Location/Dislocation," edited by Ken Foster is now live.

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Felicia Sullivan chats with one of my favorite authors, Roxana Robinson at Small Spiral Notebook.

Many thanks to my friend and writer, Myfanwy Collins for the original link.

June Reading

Books I read in June:



“The Apple’s Bruise,” stories by Lisa Glatt

“We Are All Fine Here” by Mary Guterson

“There Are Jews in My House,” stories by Lara Vapnyar

“No Direction Home,” by Marisa Silver

“Last Night,” stories by James Salter

“Specimen Days” by Michael Cunningham

“Embroideries” by Marjane Satrapi

“A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That” by Lisa Glatt

“Bulletproof Girl” stories by Quinn Dalton

“The Red Carpet” stories by Lavanya Sankaran

“Wonder When You’ll Miss Me” by Amanda Davis

“Circling the Drain” stories by Amanda Davis

“House of Thieves” stories by Kaui Hart Hemmings

“The Brutal Language of Love” stories by Alicia Erian

My favorites were the Lisa Glatt collection and novel; the Sankaran collection; the Erian collection; the Cunningham novel; the Dalton collection; the beautiful "Embroideries;" the title story in the Vapnyar collection; the Davis novel; and the Hemmings collection.