Get It Louder!

I'll be in Beijing for the next ten days to participate in the immensity that is Get It Louder! All participants are legally required to end all statements with exclamation points for the duration of the conference! More information here and here!

September 23, 2010, 10:03 a.m.Categories: Art, China, Fiction Collections, Photography, Translation, Travel

Scree.

I've got a new story (and an interview to boot) up at the excellent Subtropics, rubbing shoulders with great work by Padgett Powell, Kevin Prufer and Chris Bachelder, among many others. Many thanks to Anastasia Kozak for her great questions and to David Leavitt for his deft touch.

June 21, 2010, 9:35 p.m.Categories: China, Litmags, Short Stories

Memoir flashing, or so it seems.

A full glass lifted to Ron Mitchell and the rest of the staff at Southern Indiana Review for fitting two chunks of flash memoir into their Spring 2010 issue. “Houhai Lake in Winter” and “The Overnight Train from Xian Pulls Into Beijing” have superb company - Liam Rector and James Valvis, Randall Brown and Joe Meno, Laura Madeline Wiseman and Adam Johnson, bright lights all.

April 28, 2010, 7:35 p.m.Categories: China, Litmags, Nonfiction, Travel