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Week of August 2-8, 2009
Novel Work Doing the final work on the rewrite of Part I. It’s taken since March to get to this point, but I feel much more comfortable with what I’m doing now. Having gone from 100-pages of a...
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Week of August 9-15, 2009
Novel Work For the past few weeks I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the shape of the first part of my novel, The Open City. It’s kind of amazing how productive this has been in revision, but...
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My First Published Review
Prairie Schooner has accepted my review of Lydia Peelle’s new collection of short fiction, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, for publication in an upcoming issue! This is my first book review....
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Month of Sept 14-Oct 11, 2009
“When you read proof, take out the adjectives and adverbs wherever you can. You use so many of them that the reader finds it hard to concentrate and he gets tired. You can understand what I mean when I...
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Review News
Some news to share regarding criticism. My review of Justin Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever will be appearing on The Millions early next month! It was just accepted this week. And my...
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Prairie Schooner Summer
The Summer edition of Prairie Schooner is out this week–and features my review of Lydia Peelle’s debut collection of short fiction! If you can’t find the issue at your local book store, information for...
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Peelle Review Now Online
For those interested, my review of Lydia Peelle’s debut short fiction collection, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing, is now available in the online archives of Prairie Schooner. This was...
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Review of Greetings from Below Published
The Spring issue of Prairie Schooner has been released, which means my review of David Philip Mullins’ Greetings from Below is out too! I love this cover. This marks my third review in Prairie...
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The Second Half: The Millions’ Preview and Harper Perennial’s Big Deal
The Millions dropped its Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2012 Book Preview this week. In what’s becoming a biannual tradition, the list boasts a number of big-name authors, such as Zadie Smith,...
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Where Are They Now–Best New American Voices 2009
A couple weeks ago Google alerted me to the fact that a new review of my story “Welcome Home” had been posted on the blog I Read a Short Story Today. While it’s somewhat rare to see an individual short...
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