Askold Melnyczuk has a piece in AGNI on the eleven thousand Iraqis who have perished since the start of the invasion and on our persistence in not talking about them. The article is particularly au point given the recent decision to stop counting Iraqi civilian casualties.
Lizzie’s got poems in Barrow Street (buy it here) and in the next Iowa Review.
(*We wouldn’t want you to forget our membership in the literary cabal or anything.)
Michael Chabon’s comic book creation for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is coming out, and it’s titled The Escapist.
The Boston Globe’s best-of list starts with the prize-winners before making its own picks. And then in this list, four authors (Tom Clancy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Jane Roberts Woods, and Clive Cussler) choose their favorites.
The winner is Mountains of the Mind by Robert McFarlane. I suppose the news makes this group at least very happy.
The Winter issue of Crab Creek Review is available now. Moby has a guest column from small press publisher Robert Lasner of IG Publishing. Michael Silverblatt will host Edward P. Jones next week, so be sure to tune in.