I have just been informed that video footage of the reading I did with Benjamin Percy and Min Jin Lee at the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series is now live online.
May 16, 2008, 9:51 a.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Short Stories
Magnificent and well-earned news: Ron Currie, Jr.'s God is Dead has won The New York Public Library’s 2008 Young Lions Fiction Award. I'd call Ron an old friend, but if he's young enough to have won that award, I guess that won't quite do.
April 30, 2008, 10:34 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Short Stories
Steve Morison's kind profile (partly about me, partly about Zhang Lijia, all in the context of the Beijing expat writers scene) just showed up in Poets & Writers. This kind of thing is Morison's forte--he's also done articles about Kabul and Tangiers (if I remember right, he was the last known person to interview Paul Bowles), and was in Myanmar researching something similar when the typhoon hit.
April 16, 2008, 12:44 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Travel
Dzanc beat me to the punch, and it's a fun punch indeed: All Over is a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award in the short story collection category. May 29 is when the last word comes down. If you need me before then, I'll be over in the corner holding my breath.
March 8, 2008, 11:49 p.m.Category: Fiction Collections
More kindness for All Over, with T.K. Dalton at The L Magazine responsible for the handiwork.
February 20, 2008, 12:22 p.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Review
The Believer has been one of my favorite magazines for years, so I was very happy, and also nervous, when I heard that they'd assigned a reviewer for All Over. The review is now up, and it looks like good news to me.
January 21, 2008, 10:20 a.m.Categories: Fiction Collections, Review
Xiaowei Su first interviewed me about a year and a half ago, right after Nothing in the World came out, and we recently went another round over All Over. The results are right here for your listening pleasure.
January 4, 2008, 12:02 p.m.Categories: China, Fiction Collections, Interviews, Short Stories
