Many thanks to mudluscious' J.A. Tyler for giving the internets a new taste of Pacazo, my novel to come, and for stacking the crowd around it: Michael Kimball, Amelia Gray, Aaron Burch, Lily Hoang, Robert Lopez, Dawn Raffel, Peter Markus and many more.
Huge gaping thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, which recently granted me one of their forty-odd 2010 Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing (Prose). It's pretty amazing company to be in--Barry Gifford and Adam Johnson and ZZ Packer also won this year, along with my friend and fellow Dzancer Mike Czyzniejewski. The book I pitched in my application will require more in the way of travel expenses than I could ever have afforded on my own, so again, thank you, NEA!
December 18, 2009, 9:20 p.m.Categories: Auto-trumpeting, History, Novels, Travel
Boy. We are in the suckiest stretch, death-wise.
April 19, 2009, 6:07 p.m.Categories: Novels, Short Stories
What does one do when a polestar goes dark?
That's not a rhetorical question.
Peace in and with you, old man.
September 17, 2008, 9:34 a.m.Category: Novels
Tonight begins a week of events--panel discussions, readings and signings, a cabaret--at The Bookworm here in Beijing. I'll be there this evening to serve as moderator for Adam Williams and Qiu Xiaolong, and will return on March 8th as part of the launch for Beijing: Portrait of a City, and then again on the 9th to talk about moral ambiguity in fiction with Nicholas Jose and Edward Ragg.
March 6, 2008, 10:54 a.m.Categories: China, Interviews, Novels, Translation
