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Bausch, Baxter, Carlson, Cheuse & Percy

Monday’s night’s event with Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe drew more than 1,200 readers to George Mason’s Fairfax Campus. The event […]

Despite being largely overshadowed (in some corners of the press, at least) by the National Book Festival next week, Fall

…and in the process, my own life — and my occasional posts here — will likely get put on hold

Since David Foster Wallace’s death last week, writers and critics around the world have been examining anew Wallace’s influence on

After borrowing a couple of exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s latest for my last post, I trotted out another great writing

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” said Thomas Mann, and

On Thursday night, my friend Kyle — a fine fiction writer and now an accomplished translator as well — was

Last fall saw the publication of Brian Brodeur’s chapbook So The Night Cannot Go On Without Us, winner of the

A much-appreciated comment yesterday (from a much-admired commenter) added another book which lets readers explore it at their own pace: Ana

While the previous post bemoaned the multitude of books that we readers will never get the chance to reach, there’s

A couple of years back, just after I embarked on an MFA program in fiction at George Mason University, a