Jay McInerney provides an interesting review of Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel in Sunday’s New York Times. In a quick wrap-up, McInerney describes the recent history of coming-of-age novels by writing, “In its modern form the American bildungsroman (the novel of formation) descends from The Catcher in the Rye‘ (1951). Reinvigorated by feminism in the 70’s,…
Joe Meno, author of How the Hula Girl Sings is appearing Olsson’s in Dupont Circle, 1307 19th Street NW in Washington DC, tonight at 7pm. Meno’s new novel begins “exactly where most pulp fiction usually ends, with the vivid episode of the terrible crime itself. Three years later, Luce Lemay, out on parole for the…
Aimee Bender is scheduled to appear at Powell’s today in support of her newest collection, Willful Creatures. The reading is at 7:30PM at Powell’s Burnside location: 1005 W Burnside in Portland. Bender is a fantastic writer so this appearance shouldn’t be missed by those folks in the Northwest.
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.
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.