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Magazine Days 31 Jul 2013 | 03:53 pm
I don’t post much here about my magazine and Internet writing, but it’s been a good season for all of it. I’m working now on essays and reportage for The Nation and The Believer, the first time I’ve w...
First Praying Drunk Review is In! 8 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
Praying Drunk isn’t out until February 2014, but the first review is already in, from Publishers Weekly, which calls it a “dazzling, emotional, funny, captivating puzzle.” I’m happy with that! An exc...
Unbound: Fiction on the Radio 22 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
Louisville Public Media invited me to read my story “The Question of Where We Begin” for the inaugural season of Unbound: Fiction on the Radio, produced by Erin Keane. The episode, titled “Alternate H...
Publishers Weekly / BookExpo America 10 May 2013 | 02:55 am
Good news today: Publishers Weekly chose Praying Drunk as one of 20 “galleys to grab” at BookExpo America, the four-day conference and party for American booksellers, librarians, publishers, critics, ...
Poets & Writers 23 Apr 2013 | 01:38 am
The new Poets & Writers arrived, and, hey!, I got to talk about The Iowa Review and my friend Aaron Gwyn. The photo was taken by Jen Percy at the Raymond Carver desk in Iowa City.
Mission Creek Music Festival, etc. 9 Apr 2013 | 01:15 am
Worldwide hero Kristen Radtke sent this picture from my Mission Creek Music Festival reading at the Clinton Street Social Club in Iowa City last Friday night, which was sponsored by Jim Beam, believe ...
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 21 Mar 2013 | 03:54 am
Some welcome news today: My story “Seven Stories About Kenel of Koulev-Ville” was selected for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013, edited by Dave Eggers. The anthology will be published this Octo...
Praying Drunk: The Book Cover 16 Feb 2013 | 05:14 am
It was difficult to choose from among ten or so beautiful cover designs by Kristen Radtke and Kirby Gann, so I let the publisher decide. I’m happy with the choice. In a couple of months, Advanced Read...
New Story in the Iowa Review 2 Jan 2013 | 10:52 pm
The new issue of The Iowa Review is out today, and it includes a new story of mine, titled ”Seven Stories about Kenel of Koulèv-Ville ,” a story about catastrophe, power, friendship, love, and human k...
Advice to My Younger Self 7 Oct 2012 | 07:51 am
Perhaps I haven’t attained the stature to give advice to other writers, but here is what I would say to a younger version of myself, if I could: 1. Swing for the fences every time. 2. If there is a th...
