News, Events, Pubs:
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The new Puerto Del Sol is out, the Utopia issue, and my Thomas-Eakins-inspired story is there:
"The Arcadia Series" (pdf)
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My demolition job on the latest Paul Auster (and all the others) is up
in the October Open Letters
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I visit the Congo of 1900 in this take on Bernardo Atxaga's novel
Seven Houses in France
for Bookforum
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Review of Bruce Wagner's
Dead Stars, a strange ride
about Hollywood, failure, and celebrity culture, at Open Letters Monthly
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My thoughts on the shooting
in Aurora and about our
national conversation about weapons is up at Open Letters Monthly.
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My review of Ben Ehenreich's Ether
is online now in the Summer issue
of The Quarterly Conversation
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Meta: I review the reviews of
Toni Morrison's novel Home,
in the June issue of Open Letters Monthly, and then I review the book itself
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My take on Daniel Arsand's new novella, Lovers appears in
this May's Brooklyn Rail
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The worldly and lettered Steve Donoghue and I chat over John Sutherland's new and compendious Lives of the Novelists in this
April's Open Letters Monthly
(and the man himself replies...)
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Levi Stahl has written a beautiful meditation on the fiction of youth featuring Under the Small Lights and Cyril Connolly's Unquiet Grave
at I'vebeenreadinglately
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Carissa Halston, who I love and wish I could hug back recommends
Under the Small Lights for LitPub
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My reading from Under the Small Lights is streaming online at
the new Prairie Lights archive
alongside Adam Golaski's reading from his eerie, radiant Color Plates
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My short short "Terra Cotta Kings" is available now in issue 9.1
of Emerson College's Redivider (print)
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I take in and then take on the Essays of Gore Vidain in
April'sOpen Letters Monthy--
The Criticism Issue, and our 5-year annivrsary
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I have three new (old) poems
in U. of Albany's Barzakh
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I read and report on Jarett Kobek's sharp 9/11 novel in January's
Open Letters Monthly (print)
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Fresh to Colorado, I had a flattering chat with my new friends
at Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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I revisit a painting that means (meant) the world to me in September's
Open Letters Monthly
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Joelle Jameson and I chat via online radio for High Volumes
-- stream or download for maximum satisfaction
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The new Puerto Del Sol is out, the Utopia issue, and my Thomas-Eakins-inspired story is there:

