Oral Florist, Rita Bullwinkle
Collaboration
Tin House in the NYX
apocalypses now and again
Alex Chee
Gosh I just came across this on Alex Chee’s blog, about when we met at Bread Loaf. It was a very special time, and it pretty wonderful, just now, to run across this account of it. It’s when I met my agent PJ, too, who features in the account.
Julie Andresen Tetel
Maria Kuznetsova and Melissa Malouf
Bomb
Kelley Ogden
Tin House Blog
Lavender Review
Writer’s Notebook
Huffington Post
WebConjunctions
LEVY Dance
Academy Apocalypses
InDigest
Make-Out Room
Pen America
Devil’s Lake
Tarpaulin Sky
“Witches” Performance
Composer Laurie San Martin wrote a choral piece using my apocalypse story called “Witches.” Here’s links to the performance and to a clip from a rehearsal. So great to see the apocalypses traveling and transforming.
Laurie San Martin
Laurie San Martin, from the music dept at Davis, used “Witches” for a chamber chorus composition. She sent me the score. It is something else to see little story words go up and down with mysterious symbols. I played music for years as a child never realizing that I couldn’t read the music I was following.
McSweeney’s
I used passages cut from my novel in progress to make a story for McSweeney’s 50th issue. It’s a beautiful collection of work with all the gorgeous surprises you expect (ha) from McS design.
Ploughshares
very very long except of Swank Hotel in spring Ploughshares with my thanks to editor Stuart O’Nan. I just realized that this makes my 4th pub in pshares. They almost took “Godzilla” back in the day, too–
Hunger Mountain
Excerpt from The Swank Hotel,“Frank Writes A Letter,” which I just turned into a fifteen page endnote in the ms. will be in the next Hunger Mountain, ed. x supercool Jedediah Berry.
Apocalypses PB and Ebook
There is a paperback and e-book of Apocalypses from McSweeney’s. With one all-new apocalypse. The new cover is as beautiful as the original cover.
Writer’s Chronicle
The collaborative article that I wrote with my magic panelists based on our (dramatic) AWP conference event was the cover article for the AWP Chronicle this month. I have no idea what people think about it.
Grants
For the second time I was a finalist for a Creative Capital grant, but I didn’t get one. I was a finalist for a couple things this year, and didn’t get them, and I did not make finalist for a couple things, too. But that’s okay. I get an awful lot of stuff from a lot of people places and things.
New American Stories Out
The Ben Marcus edited anthology New American Stories is out. Here’s a review from The Guardian. Got my copy and so many exciting stories in there. Already reading…
New American Stories
Found out that “Madmen” is going to be in the next edition of the Vintage Book of New American Short Stories. This is very exciting to me. This is an anthology that gets taught a lot and if there’s a story of mine that I want out there, it’s “Madmen”. The story was also reprinted some time ago in a cultural anthropology journal. Here’s an interview with them about it.
Breathing or Sniffling
Collaborating with three of my graduate students on a text & sound project. It’s going to be a low-tech loop of us reading, with the ambient sounds of writing (mostly breathing or sniffling) & it’s going to play in the huge empty Mondavi Center theater in March but it’s for about 100 invited Mondavi-type people…
Frank O’Connor Award
100 Apocs made the long list for the 2014 Frank O’Connor Award. It’s a long long list, but very sweet to be included.