Understanding Jill McCorkle (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Voices of New Orleans (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Booklist singled out Steve De Jarnatt's "Ribiaux Rising" for special notice in their review of The Best American Short Stories 2009: "....a powerful and ironic piece set in the midst of Hurricane Katrina." I have no idea where it first appeared but it's nice to see it make it into the new volume (along with Annie Proulx, Richard Powers and Jill McCorkle among many others.)
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
``I have just read Francine Prose's Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. This is an amazing book. It pulls together into one volume with great order and clarity much of what has been written about both Anne Frank and the publication of her diary over the years, but also (and most importantly, I think) focuses on Anne Frank as an accomplished writer who with great skill and talent edited herself...
Five Star Literary Stories: flash fiction, short... (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Nominating Editors: Tom Jenks and Rebecca Kaden Narrative Magazine was founded in 2003 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age and to encouraging readership around the world and across generations. Narrative offers weekly updated contents and an extensive archive, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and special features by the best established...
Lisa Romeo Writes (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Let's get right to the Friday links. ► Peter Selgin, novelist, essayist, editor of the food-themed literary journal Alimentum, and writing teacher extraordinaire, offers a free critique on a first page of a work in progress. Though posted anonymously, it does go up on his blog , so others can learn too. Or maybe you'd rather just sign up for Peter's weeklong workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy instead?...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Jill McCorkle's new collection of stories opens with a quote from Gloria Steinem -- ''If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?'' -- that offers a none-too-subtle clue about the theme.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. It has been eight long years since Jill McCorkle's last short story collection, Creatures of Habit. Going...
Perpetual Folly (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
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...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . This week I received three books: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory - from publicist. Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant - from Marcia at The Printed Page . Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle - from the publisher.
baithak (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world. The Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize last year for The White Tiger, a story of an Indian slum kid who rises to riches by killing his boss. Now he has followed it with Between The Assassinations, an armoury of short stories...
Proof of Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
Results for Best New Poets 2009 have been announced. Congrats to Sewanee pal, Adam, and to online writing group friend Sally! I had such a great experience with BNP last year, so I'm excited to see what this year's edition will hold. Write on, writers. ************** Really digging the first of my Sewanee books, July 7th by Jill McCorkle. A death scene from early in the book, a convenience store is...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
An article about religion and the Twilight saga in the Washington Post contains a couple of Brontë references: Twilight, like this blog post, will never be considered great literature, but it might spur an interest in better books. At best, Edward and Bella, the main couple in the book, are signposts pointing to the great romantic couples of literature, such as Heathcliff and Cathy, Romeo and...
A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach was just the book I needed right now. A coming of age story set in South Carolina and spanning the mid-60s to the mid-70s, it's narrated by Mary Katherine Burns who we meet at the age...
LUSTY LADY (Free subscription) | 05/29/2009
Me and my mosquito bites will be signing free copies of Best Sex Writing 2009 Friday from 12:30-1:30 at Book Expo America, autographing area, Table 11! I am so so excited. I'll be Tweeting and maybe even vlogging for the next 3 days from there. And I'm going to the Tweetup tomorrow night after I get my gold medals for the IPPY Awards! Other signings tomorrow you don't want to miss (well, I don't want...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
My friend Alexi Zentner and I are, as he puts it, publication siblings in the fall issue of Narrative, which is out now on newsstands. The issue also includes work from Jill McCorkle, my fellow Love Story Prize winners, and many others. My essay has been out for a few months (and is [...]
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