In December of 2005, my friend Eric Ozawa was e-mailing back and forth* about the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU with his friend Charles Antin, who had just applied to the CWP. (Eric, at the time, was working on finishing his thesis in fiction.) Charles described his application this way: I think my writing [...]
A new story of mine called “The Month of Writing Dangerously” is in the fourth print edition of Opium Magazine, which has just been published. The story is a rollicking, continent-spanning adventure, packed to the gills with romance and pathos and political intrigue, love and war and hummingbird sausage; in other words, riffing on the [...]
Accidental Warholia! If you live in Pittsburgh, or will be there this weekend, or live within a thousand miles of the city (especially if you’ve never seen the show before, or have only heard the songs in their recorded form on the completely stunning album, etc.), you should really go see Cynthia and the band [...]
Last April, when I had a residency at the Ucross Foundation, one of the books in my studio was a copy of The Best American Short Stories 2005, which included eight very short stories by J. Robert Lennon under the title “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand,” which had originally run in Granta 85. The [...]