News

1. Interview: Tottenville Review.  John Gilmore talks with me in one of the most in-depth and extensive interviews I’ve done.   Click to read the interview.
   

1. Review: Tottenville Review.  Carmie Banasky reviews The New Valley for the novella issue of the online journal.  Click to read the review.
   

1. Interview: Sheepish Fashionista.  A fun and different interview on this fashion-literature mash-up blog.   Click to read the interview.
   

1. Interview: NPR’s Page by Page Baltimore.  Jonathan Bastian interviews me for the NPR show Page by Page.   Click to listen to the interview.
   

1. Op-Ed in The New York Times: The (no longer so) Gray Lady publishes a personal essay of mine, The Summer that Ended All Summers.
   

1. The Quivering Pen: In conversation with The New Yorker’s recent (and excellent) list of 20 best new authors under 40, David Abrams puts together an alternative list of his own, and kindly puts The New Valley on it.  Click to read his thoughts and see who else he chooses.
   

1. Interview: Oxford American. One of the favorite interviews I’ve ever done, and for one of my favorite magazines.   Click to read (and browse one of the best publications out of the South).
   

1. Interview: Marissa Bell Toffoli interviews me for a nice new author-interview site: Words With Writers.
   

1. Interview: Baltimore-based writer Meghan Kenny interviews me for the Balitmore-based JMWW.  Click to read.
   

1. The American Academy of Arts & Letters awards The New Valley the 2010 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction For “the best work of first fiction published in 2009.”  Click to read the press release.
   

1. The Great Lakes Colleges Association awards The New Valley the 2010 New Writers Award in Fiction.   Click to read the judges’ comments.
   

1. The National Book Foundation posts some great videos of the 5-under-35 event.  Click to see interviews with, and readings by, me and the other four honorees. 
   

1. Interview: WYPR Baltimore.  Sheila Kast interviews me for the NPR show Maryland Morning.   Click to listen to the interview (begins 1/3 of the way through).
   

1. Ploughshares Review: Sherrie Flick reviews The New Valley  in one of the best literary journals around.  Click to read.
   

1. Largehearted Boy, one of my favorite blogs, includes The New Valley (alongside books by my friends CE Morgan and Robert Goolrick) in a list of Favorite Novels for 2009 .  Click to read.
   

1. Margo Rabb, a great writer with a great blog, posts an interview with me.  Click to read.
   

1. The wise and well-spoken (and written) Robert J. Howell reviews The New Valley at The Daily Sabbatical.  Click to read.
   

1. Sabra Wineteer writes about four authors’ varied views of the American South (I’m one, and so is my pal Skip Horak) in The Rumpus.  Check it out Here.
   

1. Francis M. at The blog Booking Around writes a thoughtful review of The New Valley.  Click to read.
   

1. The National Book Foundation honors The New Valley with a 5-Under-35 Award.  Click to see video of the event.
   

1. The New York Times books blog Paper Cuts posts Stray Questions for Josh Weil.  Click to read.
   

1. WVTF, the main NPR station for Southwestern Virginia, broadcasts an interview  with me.  Click to listen to the interview.
   

1. Newtonville Books posts an interview with me (with great, unique questions) on their blog.  Click to read.
   

1. Stacy Muszyski reviews The New Valley in The Collagist.   Click to read the review.
   

1. WriterHouse in Charlottesville, VA, posts audio of an evening I spent there reading from The New Valley and answering questions about the novella as a form.  Click to listen to it.
   

1. The New River Voice, an online magazine out of the area upon which The New Valley is based, interviews me.  Click to read.
   

1. The Richmond Times-Dispatch highlights The New Valley in their Book Notes section.  Click to read.
   

1. American Short Fiction (my story “The First Bad Thing” appears in the current issue) posts my thoughts on the daily routines of wirting in their series On Ritual.  Click to read the post.
   

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