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Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes
http://americanfiction.wordpress.com
A (nearly) daily blog with news about American novelists and short story writers, written by a journalist and book critic in Washington D.C.
- Added on: Aug 29th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: mathitak
- Listed in: Books Journalists
- Tags: books United States fiction literature novels short stories
Recent Posts
Kirkus Reviews, 1933-2009
This one hurts: Kirkus Reviews has been shuttered. I regularly reviewed books for the publication for most of the past five years—mostly fiction, though I recently had more nonfiction assignments. Why the shift? Beats the heck out of me—i...
Journalist-Novelist Redux
A couple of days ago I wondered out loud if newsrooms were the chief training ground for fiction writers in the first half of the 20th century, in the way MFA programs appear to be now. As if on cue, the Washington Post’s obituary blog, Post Mo...
The Difficult Life of the Novelist-Journalist
I haven’t read any of Pete Hamill’s novels—I never hear much about them that’s convincingly positive. But I do admire his journalism (Piecework assembles the best of it), and he has plenty to say about the intersection of repo...
Q&A: Rachel Sherman
Rachel Sherman’s debut story collection, 2006’s The First Hurt, was one of my favorite books of that year; her focus is on adolescence, and she has a knack for exposing people at their most fragile while remaining sympathetic to them. The...
A Word About Listings
People who read this blog via RSS won’t notice it, but for a little more than a year I’ve maintained a page on this site dedicated to book readings and signings in the Washington, D.C., area. The format is admittedly clumsy, but I’v...
Links: What’s Good for the Country
Detroit receives little care and attention from anybody, including fiction writers. But Brad Leithauser and Susan Messer both have new historical novels set in the city. Being a midlist author is no way to make money. (While we’re at it, neithe...
