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News and Notes
 © Random House Steve Almond’s ("Law
of Sugar," Issue 8; "A
Happy Dream," Issue 17) new essay collection,
Not That You Asked, is due out in September
from Random House. Just like Steve himself, Not is
full of sex and politics and writerly angst, with some
jokes thrown in to keep the sponsors happy. Can’t wait to read
it, or hate to pay retail? Read excerpts for free on
Steve’s
always entertaining website. David Barringer ("The Vampires," Issue 8) is soliciting pieces for “The Bush Years,” an anthology of pieces about same. Have anything for him? Submit here. Caren Beilin ("Three or So Uses of the Crab Apple," Issue 21) has a story forthcoming in LIT, and another online in Arabesques.   © Viking Adult T.C. Boyle’s ("Interview," Issue 12) latest, Talk Talk, is now available in paperback from Viking Adult. David Brizer ("Deutsche," Issue 10) and addiction—they go together like chocolate and peanut butter. So we weren’t the least bit surprised to learn that David’s taken on the mantle of book review editor at the Journal of Addictive Disease. failbetter.com this ain’t—JAD is real serious stuff, and to boot, it’s a smart-looking product that would complement any coffee table. And if you'd like to help an addiction-book-review-editing brother out, drop him a line—he’s trawling for 500- to 750-word reviews of newly pubbed titles in the field. Attention Clevelanders and C-town wannabes: Michael Ceraolo’s ("Twelfth Possible Definition of Irony" and "Second Possible Definition of Fundamentalism," Issue 7) More Euclid Creek is out now from Kendra-Steiner Editions. Richard Fulco’s ("An Exploration," Issue 12) Get Out of Jail Free is running through August at the Lower East Side’s CSV Cultural Center, courtesy the NYC International Fringe Festival.   © Arthur A. Levine Books Myla Goldberg’s ("Going For The Orange Julius," Issue 4) first children’s book, Catching the Moon, is just out from Arthur A. Levine. Tracey Knapp ("Lie to Me" and "Big Top," Issue 9) has five poems just up on No Tell Motel, and another in a forthcoming number of Minnesota Review. Nathan Long ("Form of Things," Issue 5) has a story in the latest number of Philadelphia Stories, and another in an upcoming issue of Driftwood. He’s currently at work on a collection, In the Palm of My Hand, courtesy a summer faculty grant from Richard Stockton College. Peter Markus ("Our Father Who Walks On Water Comes Home With Two Buckets Of Fish," Issue 2) has stories in the current issues of New York Tyrant and Dislocate.   © So New Publishing Jen Michalski’s ("The Movie Version of My Life," Issue 18) new story collection, Close Encounters, is out now from So New Media. Thylias Moss ("Prologue of the Book of Hallowed Verses of the Holy Circus of Decent Girls," Issue 18) is just too darned busy! For more, see here. And here. Here too... Whew! Bryson Newhart ("Buried Alive," Issue 12) has fiction in recent numbers of elimae and Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens, and pieces forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky, Caketrain, and 5 trope. Katsura Okada ("Canon: History: Cycles...#1" et al., Issue 12) had works in a recent show at Chelsea’s A.I.R. Gallery, and has others in "Compass: New Directions," opening in September at the Black & White Gallery in Williamsburg.   © Knopf Amie Oliver ("Angels & Infidels XIX," et. al., Issue 22) recently had work shown at Seoul’s Sook Myung University and Seoul Hae-Tae Gallery, and Beijing’s Shang-Shang Main Gallery. This September, a show of her paintings and bookworks opens at the Project Space Gallery at Plant Zero in RIchmond, VA. For more info, check her website. Jane Ormerod ("Last Year’s Capers," Issue 21) has released a spoken-word CD, "Nashville Invades Manhattan." Check it out here. Susan Richardson’s ("Bookshop Blues" and "Not Like the Movies," Issue 9) Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, a collection of poems inspired by a journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, is out now from Cinnamon Press. Richard Russo’s (Interview, Issue 4) new novel, Bridge of Sighs, is due in September from Knopf. Thaddeus Rutkowski, ("Dear Daughter," and "Waiting for the Phone to Ring," Issue 15) currently a writer-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, will be reading in Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Berlin in the coming months—check his website for venues and dates.   © Riverhead George Saunders's (Interview, Issue 5) new non-fiction collection, The Braindead Megaphone, is out now from Riverhead. Jim Shepard ("Project X," Issue 11; "Proto-Scorpions of the Silurian," Issue 17) has stories in the current numbers of Ploughshares and A Public Space, and a new collection, Like You’d Understand, Anyway, due in September from McSweeney’s. Busier even than Thylias Moss? That would be Maggie Smith, ("I Dream a Highway" and "Suspension," Issue 16) she of poems in recent issues of Gettysburg Review, Florida Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Third Coast, Blackbird, and Mid-American Review.   © McSweeney’s Terese Svoboda ("The Story," Issue 22) is doing her best to keep up with the Smiths, with fiction in recent or upcoming issues of Encyclopedia, Bomb, Narrative, Lit and Opium5, and poetry, likewise, in Subtropics, Ploughshares, and Columbia. Lee Upton ("Apology to Keats" and "The Broom," Fall 2000) has poems forthcoming in the New Republic and Boulevard, and new fiction slated to appear in Conduit, Epoch, Idaho Review, and Short Fiction. Courtney Weber ("This Is What Gets Me," Issue 15) is now hosting a monthly live astrology show: "The Ass-tro Hour with Sister Mary Manhattan: High Priestess of the Paranormal" at Brooklyn’s Stain Bar. © 2007 failbetter LLC · all rights reserved |
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