And the family trip we took to Xian, which I've mined once or twice before, comes through for me once again: a hard moment going bright, now up as part of Issue Two of the fine new Hot Metal Bridge, along with great fiction by Dan Chaon and Dan Marshall, nonfiction by Michelle Wildgen and Shya Scanlon, and interviews with Tom Perrotta and Stewart O’Nan.
October 30, 2007, 7:20 p.m.Categories: China, Food, Nonfiction, Travel
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
As mentioned before elsewhere, I have determined to make all future contributions to The Nervous Breakdown in the form of Untimely Book Reviews. Why, exactly, this obsession with Untimely? I am not at all sure, but for the moment it feels right.
July 24, 2007, 3:12 p.m.Category: Nonfiction
Julie Sisk, the editor of Map Magazine out of Nanjing, takes her best shot at me in the latest issue. Most of the interview deals with the new cultural/historical guide to the city that I just wrote, but the questions branch out from there.
June 28, 2007, 8:21 p.m.Categories: China, History, Interviews, Nonfiction, Travel
It's been a long time coming but Nanjing: A Cultural and Historical Guide is at last alive.
May 2, 2007, 11:48 a.m.Categories: China, History, Nonfiction, Travel
Not a story this time, but an essay up on the magazine blog. I was asked to consider what I'm missing by living so far away from the U.S. literary scene. Consider it considered.
March 14, 2007, 10:17 p.m.Categories: Litmags, Nonfiction, Travel
The trip that my family and I took to Xian back in our first year in China gave me all kinds of good juju. The latest bit of it to find a home is called "Under the Abalone," which can be read in its entirety here in Issue 2 of Salt Flats Annual. It's a great issue, focusing on place, with fiction by Girija Tropp, and nonfiction by Jim Ruland, Jai Clare, Pia Ehrhardt, Carol Novack, and longtime hero of mine Melanie Rae Thon.
January 16, 2007, 12:10 p.m.Categories: China, History, Litmags, Nonfiction, Travel
