Radio Free AWP Podcast Live
Take a listen to "Writing From Hand to Hand: A Dialogue on Lewis Hyde's The Gift," a podcast I recorded with my friend and colleague Fred Arroyo (author of A Region of Lost Names) as part of Inside Higher Ed blogger Oronte Churm's ingenious brainchild, Radio Free AWP. The Gift is an amazing book: erudite, eloquent, and soulful. Good medicine for anyone who from time to time might wonder why they spend so much energy writing (or painting, singing, dancing, creating vast cities out of toothpicks--whatever artistic creation fascinates and absorbs you) when the world doesn't much seem to care. Listen.
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer launched this month
I was thrilled to get in the mail the other day the new book Naming the World edited by Bret Anthony Johnston. It's an incredible collection of exercises by writers like Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth McCracken, Ann Packer, and Richard Bausch--writers who teach, and who offer their own professional insights into what exercises work best with their students. (Yes, I've got one in there, too.) Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore!
The Priest's Madonna released in paperback!
As of April 3, 2007, you can now buy The Priest's Madonna in paperback! Enjoy a cheaper read!
"Ethical Eating" the cover story in UU World Magazine
Check out the latest issue of UU World Magazine to read my article, "Ethical Eating," a piece about the challenges and joys of getting to know your food.
The Priest's Madonna to be reprinted in magazine format in the Netherlands
I just got word that The Priest's Madonna is going to be reprinted in the Netherlands as a magazine, which is apparently a new trend there. They tell me it'll be the whole book, unabridged, only on bigger, glossier pages, and that it'll be sold at newsstands. I have a Dutch friend who says that hardcovers in Holland are actually quite expensive, so I'm guessing these magazine-books are a way to tap into a younger market. I'll be interested to see what it looks like . . .
