Short comment regarding Katie Roiphe’s essay in the New York Times Book Review.
Brief comments on the uproar over Publisher’s Weekly’s all-male Top 10 Books of 2009, posted at Meggy Wang and Jenny Zhang’s fashion blog Fashion for Writers.
I’ll be reading at this year’s Litcrawl on behalf of Threepenny Review; other readers include Elizabeth Tallent, T. J. Clark, Louis B. Jones, Anne Wagner, and Dean Young. The venue is Creativity Explored at 3245 16th Street @ Guerrero, SF.
My email interview with the O. Henry Award folks is up on their site. I don’t remember it coming off so glad-handing and formal, but what can you do.
The handout I gave to my fiction students at the Foothill College Writers’ Conference, an essay about methods for starting a first draft and managing writers’ block.
I’ll be speaking and teaching my first writing classes at the Foothill Writers’ Conference on July 9-12.
In September, I’ll be attending Jentel, an artist residency program on a cattle ranch in middle-of-nowheresville, Wyoming, near Sheridan. I’ll be working on my novel and sitting astride cattle for a month with five other artists and writers.
My story “Soft Landing” will be appearing in the next issue of Frank, a Paris-based literary journal, early 2009-ish, along with an illustration by Justine Lai.