Great Writing has a cool interview with Max Barry posted. Barry is the author of Syrup, Jennifer Government, and the forthcoming Company. Check out the interview here.
One day in the fall of 2004, I sent out four communications to different editors. Here’s what happened: –I mailed query letters and writing samples to the editor of a Midwestern university press and an editor at a university press on the west coast. In both cases, I followed the submission guidelines exactly and included…
Dan at the Emerging Writers Network posted a great interview with more literary journal editors including the folks from StoryQuarterly, WordRiot, Fiction Attic, Western Humanities Review, Guernica, Halcyon, and the Idaho Review. Check out the interview here.
Meghan O’Rourke writes for Slate that “I really like Lunar Park, the tricky new novel by Bret Easton Ellis. In this I seem to be nearly alone.” You’re not alone, Meghan, I thought there was a lot of good stuff there as well. But be sure to read Meghan’s defense of Ellis. She makes a…
Also in The New York Times is a review of Hamburger & Fries: An American Story by John T. Edge. Third in a series of books on American food traditions, this book focuses on the multitude of ways of preparing a hamburger throughout this land of ours. Edge is a food expert who writes for…