Bender Appearing at Powell’s
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.
continue readingInteresting Interview with Max Barry
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.
continue readingInterview: Shannon Ravenel, Editor
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…
continue readingEmerging Writers Network Interivew of Lit Journal Editors
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.
continue readingDefending Bret
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…
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