Category: literary life

Hillary Clinton’s memoir…
Oh, who cares? I’m bored with all the hype.

A while back, when Deborah Treisman took over from Bill Buford at The New Yorker, she drew the ire of online writing communities at Readerville and Zoetrope for saying things like “Someone who’s submitting themselves directly to the fiction editor probably isn’t all that savvy about publishing and probably not about writing either.” Now her first debut fiction issue for the New Yorker is on stands. And she is interviewed by the New York Observer here.
Link via Maud.

Hop on over to Maud’s site. She has links to the New Yorker’s debut fiction issue. The newly anointed are Daniel Alarcon, Heather Clay, and Lara Vapnyar.

Escape June gloom by playing BookBrowse.com’s wordplay quiz (they even have prizes…)

“As the only animals with the power of speech, we should revel in our ability to challenge the forces that try to silence us, whatever the consequences. ” Read Loose Tongues and Liberty by Hanif Kureishi.
Side note: Kureishi’s short story “My Son the Fanatic” was recently reprinted in this issue of Zoetrope All-Story, and he wrote another essay, “Sex and Secularity,” to go with it.

I just found out that my story “El Dorado” has won a British Council Prize in Morocco. I’m pretty psyched.