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April in Review
-April turned out to be something of an uneventful month for me, which isn’t so bad. After all the good news and happening of March, it was nice to have a little more mental space to work in. I took a...
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May in Review (2011)
I’ve been working on a few new short stories lately, but the majority of May was devoted to beginning the initial drafting process for Part 5 of my novel The Hyphenates of Jackson County—the final...
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Review of Quarantine to Appear on Iowa Review Online
Some good news to report this morning, as my review of Rahul Mehta’s debut short story collection, Quarantine, has been accepted for publication on The Iowa Review Online! The review should run early...
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September in Review (2011)
Here's where the novel draft stands now. There's a whole book in there somewhere. Just in case you missed it, here’s what happened on here in September: -I took a few weeks off from working on the...
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Mehta Review Goes Live on The Iowa Review Online
Check out The Iowa Review Online this month, as my review of Rahul Mehta’s debut short story collection, Quarantine, has gone live. It’s really a very good book, and one you should check out. Here’s a...
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October in Review (2011)
The big news in what turned out to be a busy month—and this is unannounced news at that, which I hope is okay to make public—is that I’ve been appointed Blog and Social Networking Editor at Prairie...
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The Year in Photos: 2011
January brought plenty of rewrites on the novel; "The Housekeeper" was published on now-defunct Flatmancrooked; my collection How to Die Young in Nebraska, was once again a semi-finalist for the Iowa...
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The Second Half: The Millions’ Preview and Harper Perennial’s Big Deal
The Millions dropped its Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2012 Book Preview this week. In what’s becoming a biannual tradition, the list boasts a number of big-name authors, such as Zadie Smith,...
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