28 April 2008

Ron Currie, Jr. Wins Young Lions Fiction Award

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Last summer, I ran a guest essay from Ron Currie, Jr. that explained how his collection of linked stories was inspired by a screaming child. Earlier this evening, God Is Dead won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, presented annually to a writer under the age of 35.

19 April 2008

Beatrice.com Presents @ The Merc: Opening Night Photos

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Thanks to Jane Kotapish and Ed Park for making the launch of the Beatrice.com reading series at the Mercantile Library Center for Fiction such a fun evening. I’ve got some video from the reading, and as soon as Apple and the makers of The Flip resolve the bugs in the latest version of QuickTime, I’ll upload them for you.

19 April 2008

Don’t Be Alarmed By the New Appearance

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I decided that it was time to upgrade to a new server on my webhost, and that gave me a chance to experiment with WordPress. I realize that things look somewhat rudimentary at the moment, but I’m hoping to learn how to play with the themes when I get a spare moment here and there. And so the front page doesn’t look completely desolate, I’ve added some links to some of the interviews I’ve done at GalleyCat over the last two months.