The Art of Fiction No. 221 Issue no. 206 Fall 2013 “One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.”
Firelight Issue no. 225 Summer 2018 He was thinking of Lookfar, abandoned long ago, beached on the sands of Selidor. Little of her would be left by now, a plank or two down in the sand maybe, a bit of driftwood on the western sea.
The Literary Prize for the Refusal of Literary Prizes December 6th, 2017 I first learned about the Sartre Prize from “NB,” the reliably enjoyable last page of London’s Times Literary Supplement, signed by J.C. The fame of the award, named for the writer who refused the Nobel in 1964, is or anyhow should be growing fas…
My Motherland September 15th, 2016 Finding—and writing—the worlds where only I had been.In high school I was, like many American intellectual kids, a stranger in a strange land. I made the Berkeley Public Library my refuge, and lived half my life in books. Not only American books—En…