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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Interesting anthology form Algonquin out next Tuesday: New Stories from the South 2009, edited by Madison Smartt Bell. From the publisher's website: In the twenty-fourth volume of this distinguished anthology, Madison Smartt Bell chooses twenty-one distinctive pieces of short fiction to tell the story of the South as it is now. This is a South that is still recognizable but no longer predictable. As...
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Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
My copy of this year's edition of New Stories from the South , edited by Madison Smartt Bell, arrived today. I wish I could say I had a story in it, but I can say that there are some terrific stories by other people: Pinckney Benedict is there with a story from Image ; Kevin Wilson's story from Tin House is there; Jill McCorkle's story from Narrative is also there. And a bunch more. It looks like very...
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Rancid Raves (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
One consistent theme I have held here in the past 5 years is that I love me a good book. And since having children, I have even less tolerance for a bad one. Before I had children, I would plod through a boring read, the goal was just to finish . Now? If I am a quarter to half way through a book and I still cannot "get" it, then I put it away and move along. Life is too damned short to read...
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Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 by Matthew J. Smith, a review from The Nation by Madison Smartt Bell.
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
The new issue of JMWW is now live. Some neat stuff in there, including an excerpt of something new by Madison Smartt Bell and an extremely frustrating (but hilarious) thing by Jamie Iredell. There might even be a thing in there by J. A. Tyler. See for yourself.
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
“I started listening to most of this music in the early 1990s, as I was finishing the first of what would be three long novels about revolutionary events a long time ago in a small obscure place that few people in the United States had heard of and fewer cared about. What’s different now? At least a few more people are aware that Haiti, and the conditions of living in Haiti, are closer...
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