Steven Millhauser has been one of my favorite authors for years, and when Ron Hogan called I'd just finished The Knife Thrower and Other Stories in the course of a trip to Nanjing, so pretending that it would be in any sense possible to pick an all-time favorite story was easier than it otherwise might have been. Up, now, at Beatrice.
October 24, 2007, 7:13 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Nonfiction
Tonight begins the tour that the folks at Dzanc have put together for me to help get word out about the new collection. Lift-off is at Shaman Books in Ann Arbor, and from there we'll hit New York, Chicago, Memphis, Asheville, Greenwood, New Orleans, Iowa City, Urbana-Champaign, Davis, and my hometown of Ukiah, California, finishing up with an event or two back in Beijing. To those of you who can make it to one of the events, I look forward to meeting you; to those of you who can't, feel free to follow along over at Ullage, where I'll be posting dispatches from the road every chance I get.
October 23, 2007, 10:42 a.m.Category: Fiction Collections
So the first reviewer has weighed in on All Over--and the good news is, it looks like he liked it. Here's David Abrams doing the book right at January Magazine.
October 20, 2007, 8:42 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Review
Columnist, writer, poet, friend and fellow McSweeney's dispatcher John Griswold on the mound. Me at the plate. Here comes the heat.
October 10, 2007, 6:35 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Food, History, Interviews, Novellas
