Posted in Books, Friends on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
decomP’s March issue has just gone live. Check it out. No book review for me this month, as my contribution in that vain is bi-monthly, but next month I’ll have a brief bit with Benjamin Percy, author of Refresh, Refresh, a quite fabulous collection of fiction.
For now, head on over to decomP and read the new [...]
Posted in Chi on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Got five minutes? Head on over to the Pilcrow Lit Fest blog and read a short little interview with me conducted by the incomparable Amy Guth. Pilcrow is an awesome indie lit fest happening in Chicago this May. I am honored that Ms. Guth asked me to participate, and there are some really awesome writers attending–Elizabeth Crane, [...]
Posted in Books, Friends, Stories on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…a great story by the even greater Bobbie Ann Mason from her collection of the same name. I’ve read it twice in the last two days, and I know it’ll three or four more times before I feel like I’ve exhausted it. It’s funny and heartbreaking, bleak and reaffirming all at the same time. It’s [...]
Posted in Chi, Day to day on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
So after over ten years of publishing and seventy-five issues, the venerable alt-country publication No Depression is closing it’s doors. The usual culprits–lack of money, advertising, et al. And I’m quickly realizing that I have very few regularly published periodicals I can read–Punk Planet went down last year, Other Voices, which is a lit-mag and a great [...]
Posted in Books, Chi, Friends, RAGAD, Readings, Writings on February 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
So it’s been a while, right? I know, I know. Crazy. I will try and update this blog more regularly from now on, try being the operative word there. Much has happened. Let’s recall:
1. I have a new story up at Ghoti called ‘Ape Walk.’ The link to the story is in the post directly [...]
Posted in Writings on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a new story up in the new issue of Ghoti. It’s called Ape Walk, and was written last summer. I might read it at an event some time. Maybe not too.
Also in the issue are fellow writers and RAGAD contributors Tyler Smith and Corey Mesler. Check them out too. Many thanks to CL [...]
Posted in Day to day on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First Oprah, then Ted Kennedy, then Toni Morrison. And now Ostdick.
That’s right. I, here on this blog, am officially ending my bid for the presidency, and throwing my support behind the senator from Illinois–sounds a little familiar, doesn’t? A little historic?–Barack Obama.
Get out tomorrow and vote, peeps. It’s important, and not the way that MTV [...]
Posted in Chi, Day to day, Friends on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So good friend and superb writer Ben Tanzer has decided to launch a literary venture of his own, an e-zine, if you will, with a print annual accompaniment, called, aptly, This Zine Will Change Your Life. Tanzer hopes to launch the zine at the beginning of April. Below is the skinny on submissions and deadlines [...]
Posted in Books, Day to day, Friends, Writings on February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK, kids, there is something new you have to check out. decomP, a fine online lit mag of great fiction, poetry, and book reviews, is back with it’s February issue. Why is this so important, you ask? Aside from that the fact that decomP rocks it? Because this is the first issue under the helm of [...]
