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By ww2bw on May 17, 2013
Kyle Minor is the author of two collections of short fiction: In the Devil’s Territory (2008) and Praying Drunk (2014). His fiction and essays appear in The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Best American Mystery Stories 2008, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. He studied fiction writing at the Ohio State University and the Iowa Writers’ [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative nonfiction, creative writing, fiction, Iowa City, short stories |
By ww2bw on February 8, 2013
Matthew Salesses is fiction editor and a columnist for the Good Men Project. He has written four books, and placed stories in scores of publications including Glimmer Train, Witness, Pleiades, American Short Fiction, and The Literary Review. His nonfiction has appeared in the Good Men Project, The Rumpus, and KoreAm among others, and he is the recipient of many literary awards. His latest book, I’m Not Saying, [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative writing, fiction, poetry, short stories |
By ww2bw on January 31, 2013
Interview with A Groundhog By Jeffrey Abrahams Recently, I had an opportunity to interview Punxsutawney Phil, the iconic poster mammal for Groundhog Day and veteran weather predictor. To avoid the paparazzi that typically follow him, we met in a back booth of a Waffle House franchise off the Pennsylvania turnpike. JA: So Phil, this is your [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative writing, fiction, George Saunders, short stories |
By ww2bw on August 24, 2012
Marc Bloom is an award-winning journalist and former magazine editor-in-chief. He is the author of nine books including God on the Starting Line, about his experience as a Jewish coach of a Catholic high school cross-country team. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Marc says the books by his bed include: A Natural Woman [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative writing, fiction, short stories, sports books |
By ww2bw on August 10, 2012
Kate Brandt leads three lives. As a suburban mother she ferries middle school boys around in her black Toyota, and as an adult literacy teacher in the Bronx she ferries bags of books into the classroom in order to get her students to read. As a writer, she crouches in bed, waiting for the right [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged adult literacy, creative writing, literary fiction, reading, short stories |
By ww2bw on July 11, 2012
In his latest review for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Anthony Bukoski takes on The Law of Miracles by Gregory Blake Smith. Tony says Smith is an Iowa Workshop alumnus, “and one of the stories concerns a fictitious Workshop poet, Ichabod Sick.” Spoiler alert: Tony also says that story is Smith’s one misstep, but that’s all you’re gonna [...]
Posted in Book Review | Tagged Gregory Blake Smith, Juniper Prize for Fiction, short fiction, short stories, The Law of Miracles |
By ww2bw on June 19, 2012
“A century and a half ago, whoever laid out the city grid for Superior made sure that there would be plenty of room in the town for loneliness,” says Nick Hayes in his profile of Superior’s East End writer Anthony Bukoski in the June 18 MinnPost. He goes on to spotlight the end of town not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged fiction, short stories, Superior Wisconsin |
By Dick on June 8, 2012
Dick Cummins is a 1970 graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He’ll read anything once. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot — Non-fiction history about the billion dollar living tissue culture industry. Henrietta was an African-American woman who died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins in 1950; her cells [...]
Posted in Books by the Bed | Tagged creative writing, creativity, fiction, nonfiction, satire, short stories |
By ww2bw on April 26, 2012
Who better to review Robley Wilson’s short story collection than master of the form Anthony Bukoski? Here’s the review from yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Posted in Book Review | Tagged Anthony Bukoski, Robley Wilson, short stories |
By ww2bw on April 4, 2012
Gary Iorio has had eleven pieces of writing published in the past year or so. His “latest” appears in the most recent issue of Crack the Spine. Gary confides, “It’s just a little embarrassing to say how excited I am to have my short story ‘Bimbos And Floozies’ finally get published. It was written in [...]
Posted in Genre, The Lit Biz | Tagged publishing, short stories |
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