To check out literary tattoos, click here.

To read an interesting piece in the Atlantic Monthly about MFA programs, click here.

To read an interview with the goddess writer Lorrie Moore, click here.

On writing YA: click here.

Do you like funny? Click here.

"It's heavier than I thought."

Yes, I am the sort of person who likes this.

Actually, I love it.




I bet I watch it 17 million times before its magic wears off.


To read a piece the NY Times did about it, click here.

Writers, gender and nonfiction: click here.

A Poets and Writers article about one of my top three* favorite writers: Andre Dubus.


And another.

(the other two are Kundera and O'Connor, of course!)

"The one thing that every aspiring novelist and story writer should know is that it's really about personal taste. So much depends on taste. People always talk about the pros and cons of creative writing programs. It's a little clichéd now to say that there's an identifiable "writing program style," but there kind of is. It can be solipsistic, it can be dialogue based. I do think that some of the work coming out of those programs is being published too early. I find that the best writers, the most ambitious writers, are the greatest readers, and not just of contemporary fiction, but of classic fiction."

To read more from the Poets and Writers interview with editor Janet Silver, click here.

Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 books published between 1983 and 2008: click here.

Junot Diaz on GTA IV: click here.