Goodness, I feel like I have houseguests whom I maybe should have expected were going to come over, but for whatever reason did not. What I mean is: this Web site, my personal site, usually gets about one or two visitors a day, according to Google Analytics. This is somewhat by design: as you can [...]
(Good news catch-up post, four of four.) My story “When the Immigrant Is Hot” is an Honorable Mention in the Fifth Annual River Styx Schlafly Micro-Fiction Micro-Brew Contest! I’m not sure what issue the story will appear in, but I just mailed back my signed contract for this one as well. The winner gets a [...]
(Good news catch-up post, three of four.) I wrote an article titled “The Future of Family-Friendly Residencies” for Poets & Writers. It’s in the March/April 2011 issue, in the magazine’s annual conferences and residencies section. The article isn’t available online, but something extremely awesome is: Toby and Emily and I talking about the article in [...]
(Good news catch-up post, two of four.) While Emily was at Yaddo, back in late December and early January, I got a fantastic message on our answering machine: the great Lynne Tillman, calling from the MacDowell Colony, saying that she wanted to publish my story “What I Remember of My Love Affair with the Bird” [...]
(Good news catch-up post, one of four.) I discovered back in December—was I Googling myself? I think I might have been Googling myself—that I was/am a finalist for the 2011 Calvino Prize. I submitted a batch of connected short-short stories under the title “Seven Easy Renditions.” The stories won’t end up in Salt Hill, but [...]
My story “Elephants of the Platte” is in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #25! The spring 2010 issue. Available—as you will see, if you click through the link—in paper and non-paper formats, both manatee-free. My bio starts off true, but by the end of it, it is not true: Thomas Israel Hopkins owes a debt of [...]
(Ten-year-old Web site birthday week catch-up post, four of five.) In the fall 2009 issue of the Quarterly—which shipped last October, I think—I had two pieces: the regular Vassar Yesterday department (which involved the great Luddistic joy of doing research on microfilm), and a short item about an alumna named Anne Cleveland, Vassar class of [...]
(Ten-year-old Web site birthday week catch-up post, three of five.) In the current issue of Quick Fiction: a story of mine called “Sleepwalking.” It’s in print edition #16, which had an official publication date of October 2009, but in actuality shipped a bit later than that. As is always the case with QF, this issue [...]
(Ten-year-old Web site birthday week catch-up post, two of five.) My story “The Man in the Moon Is a Lawyer” is in the current issue of Indiana Review—Winter 2009, issue #31.2. Here’s the table of contents for the issue. Look at the excellent company—Martone et al.! Here’s how you can buy a copy. My bio [...]
(Ten-year-old Web site birthday week catch-up post, one of five.) My story “Elephants of the Platte” will be in the great LCRW. Issue #25, I think. Coming sometime later this spring!
(New year catch-up post, two of five.) My story “The Man in the Moon Is a Lawyer” will be published in the winter 2009 issue of Indiana Review (issue 31.2). I’m not exactly sure of the pub date; I signed off on page proofs a few weeks ago. “The Man in the Moon” is the [...]
(New year catch-up post, one of five.) In the summer 2009 issue of the Quarterly, which shipped back in June: I wrote the copy for the “Hidden Histories” feature (which, unfortunately, doesn’t look nearly as good online as it does in the fully designed two spreads it takes up in the printed magazine). I chose [...]
(Catch-up post, four of five.) In the winter 2008 issue, which shipped in December: “Shop Talk,” “Conventional Wisdom,” and Vassar Yesterday; in the spring 2009 issue, which shipped a couple of weeks ago: “Operatic Behavior,” “The Phil Griffin Show,” and Vassar Yesterday.
(Catch-up post, two of five.) My review of Pandora in the Congo, Albert Sánchez Piñol’s second novel (Canongate, 3 March 2009), is in the Apr./May issue of Bookforum (print and Web). You might ask: Is the translator, Mara Faye Lethem, Jonathan’s sister? Google replies: yes. Can we trust Google in this instance? It seems reasonable. [...]
(Catch-up post, one of five.) A review I wrote of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s Salmonella Men on Planet Porno ran in the Los Angeles Times back in December. The line in the review that I was most happy about: “Phyllis Schlafly in Calvino drag.” A more praise-filled review of a far more praiseworthy book: Emily writing about [...]
VQ, fall issue, 265 words, byline: “Museum Piece,” on the painter Dana Clancy. In my post about my first VQ byline, did I neglect, in my haste and concision, to link to José Klein’s site? Alas! I did. It’s a good issue, I think. I had fun coming up with titles for articles. Although Emily [...]
My review of Vacation, Deb Olin Unferth’s debut novel (McSweeney’s, 3 September 2008), is in the Sept./Oct./Nov. issue of Bookforum (print and Web). (It’s my first published piece with my new byline.) There’s this one sentence in the novel that I couldn’t quote, both because I was assigned an upper limit of 500 words and [...]
(Catch-up post, two of five.) New job, first byline (summer issue): “Warren Burger and Fries.”
(Catch-up post, one of five.) Up on the Quick Fiction Web site: “Gutenberg’s Lament.” (Live as of, what, a month ago? Diapers!)
Published earlier this week at Yankee Pot Roast: “The One-Room M.F.A. Program.” My new Y.P.R. bio explains everything: Back when he was gettin his em-eff-ay from en-why-you, Thomas Hopkins was in Chuck’s class this one time, and Jen was sayin how she would’ve preferred to learn writin back when old Steve Crane was still kickin [...]
A short thing I wrote called “The Questions I Regret Not Asking” is up as of yesterday at Monkeybicycle, which I think publishes a new thing every week (or thereabouts), and which is always hilarious, and has a hugely impressive list of previous contributors (I mean, just look at it, Charlie Anders, Patton Oswalt, David [...]
My story “A Note about This Business with the Bear” is in the second annual summer fiction issue of The L Magazine, which came out on Wednesday. The issue also features stories by Darin Strauss, Ned Vizzini, Christopher Kang, Dominique Fabre, Danielle Evans, and the winner and finalists of the magazine’s Literary Upstart competition. As [...]
My story “The Methane Fields” is in issue #23 of failbetter.com, which I’m pretty sure just went live yesterday. The story is very short—730 words—but it touches on a great number of themes and subjects, both directly and obliquely: the horrors of war; the mournful complexities of governmental bureaucracy; the Peace Corps and the State [...]
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 [...]
…is now live at Web Conjunctions. (Direct link to story page without frames.)
Did you want to read my story “The Samoan Assassin Calls It Quits” but found yourself hesitant back in May, unsure of whether you wanted to make the commitment to subscribing to a magazine that cannot be purchased at bookstores or at your local newsstand, skeptical of the joy that eighteen stories might bring you [...]
I wrote an article about a New York-based poet named Ryan Murphy and his chapbook publishing operation. It’s in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers, in the magazine’s annual look at independent presses. (The article will not be available online, but the print edition appears to have shipped.) I’m hoping that the piece inspires [...]
A convenient thing about giving stories somewhat unique titles is that they are then, once published, fairly easy to Google; that is to say, thoughts or opinions about a uniquely titled story that have been published on the Web are relatively easy to track down. (This is a new experience for me, having a name [...]
…is in the current issue of One Story. (As some of you reading this will know already, since you linked here from there. Quite a few of you, actually. Like, more visitors than have ever come from any other Web site to this one. Except for maybe from the Web site of the amazing Maud [...]
A story of mine, “The Samoan Assassin Calls It Quits,” will be published in One Story. (My bio is currently live on the upcoming stories page. The business about Massachusetts highways makes more sense after you’ve read the story, I think.)
I wrote another article about Zoo Press for Poets & Writers. It’s in the May/June issue. The print edition is currently shipping, I think; the online version of the piece is now live here.
I wrote an article about the Albee Foundation. It’s in the new issue of Poets & Writers, leading off the magazine’s annual look at conferences and residencies. I’m trying hard not to read it, following this piece of advice regarding writing when it’s finally in print, from the “Proofreading Checklists” appendix in the McGraw-Hill Proofreading [...]
Look! Face out with all the new titles at the front of the store, on the anthology shelves (near Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, which has my friend Jess’s awesome story “The Death of Mustango Salvaje” in it, and near Best American Poetry 2005, which has my friend Shanna‘s sexy poem “To Jacques Pépin” in [...]
1) for purchase: Homewrecker (in the words of Boston’s Weekly Dig, an “anthology about fucking“), in which you’ll find my story “The Blind Tiger of Love.” 2) for pre-order: Quick Fiction #8, in which you’ll find my story “Lost Childhood.” (The latter, in its 492 words, actually has more fucking than the former—only 300 words [...]
A story I wrote will be published in the next issue of Quick Fiction (#8), the lit journal for stories under 500 words.
Nominated as a candidate for Best New American Voices 2007.
Short (-short) story published in current issue of Pindeldyboz (web edition). (Direct link to story, here.)
For the final assignment for the class I took with Lawrence Weschler this past spring, I wrote about Zoo Press‘s decision in April of this year to cancel their nascent short fiction and novel contests, which I’d learned about from Maud Newton (original post, here), who had learned about it from Laila Lalami (original post, [...]