Art Garfunkel Lives!

An essay of mine published over at Full Stop about Art Garfunkel, the vagaries of internet presence, and the continuing popularity of list-making. You will enjoy it. 

A story of mine in the Atlas Review/reading at Housing Works

For those of you in NYC, I’ll be reading for the Atlas Review vol. 1 Launch Party at Housing Works Bookstore, on Wed., Feb 6th. Reading starts at 7pm. I have a story in vol 1 called “Songs,” and the other work is top-notch. Get yourself a copy, and if you’re in New York on Wednesday, stop on by!

A Letterpress Edition

I just received word that a story of mine, “Let a Song Go Out of Your Heart,” was selected as the winner of the Beltran Award Project; this means it will be produced in a letter-press edition by the Robinson Press at the Kelly Writers House here in Philadelphia. I couldn’t be more pleased, and will post more info about the press and the project in the future. Looking forward to working on the edition, and on the party that will be thrown next year!

A reading at Housing Works Bookstore

I’ll be taking part in a reading at Housing Works Bookstore on Wed, June 27th – 7pm – as part of the release party for Issue 3 of the Coffin Factory. Do come if you’re in NYC; I promise it will be a good time, and supporting Housing Works by buying a beer means fighting AIDS and homelessness.  I will be reading this story.

New work in The Coffin Factory

I’ve been enjoying the work of The Coffin Factory since their first issue – such a great magazine, willing to take chances on new work as well as some of the best work in translation I’ve seen recently in an American magazine – and I’m pleased to announce they’ll be publishing my story “The Way Love Sinks” in vol. 3. Excited to be a part of such a great project.

Some thoughts on the construction of writing workshops

I put up a short essay I wrote on my tumblr about writing workshops – actually about their limitations, and ways we might start thinking about escaping them. Responses most appreciated!

LIVE at the Writers House: a reading on WXPN radio

For anyone interested in hearing a live reading of one of my new short stories, please check out WXPN (88.5 if you’re a Philly local, on the web here if you’re not) tonight (2/27/12) at 8pm.

For those of you arriving after today (TEMPORALITY ALERT) the reading will be up on the Kelly Writers House LIVE website sometime shortly after the show airs.

Reading with me are Matt Jakubowski, Bridget Talone, Tim Leonido, and Patty Russo – music by the Old Fashioneds.