News
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The Great Lakes Colleges Association awards The New Valley the 2010 New Writers Award in Fiction. Click to read the judges’ comments.
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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.
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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).
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Ploughshares Review: Sherrie Flick reviews The New Valley in one of the best literary journals around. Click to read.
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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.
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Margo Rabb, a great writer with a great blog, posts an interview with me. Click to read.
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The wise and well-spoken (or written) Robert J. Howell reviews The New Valley at The Daily Sabbatical. Click to read.
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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.
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Francis M. at The blog Booking Around writes a thoughtful review of The New Valley. Click to read.
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The National Book Foundation honors The New Valley with a 5-Under-35 Award. Click to see video of the event.
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The New York Times books blog Paper Cuts posts Stray Questions for Josh Weil. Click to read.
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WVTF, the main NPR station for Southwestern Virginia, broadcasts an interview with me. Click to listen to the interview.
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Newtonville Books posts an interview with me (with great, unique questions) on their blog. Click to read.
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Stacy Muszyski reviews The New Valley in The Collagist. Click to read the review.
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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.
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The New River Voice, an online magazine out of the area upon which The New Valley is based, interviews me. Click to read.
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch highlights The New Valley in their Book Notes section. Click to read.
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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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Deena Drewis reviews The New Valley on Flatmancrooked. Click to read the review.
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The author Pauls Toutonghi reviews The New Valley on his blog. Click to read the review.
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Vernacular, Emerson College’s graduate student blog, reviews The New Valley. Click to read the review.
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The blog Booking Around reviews The New Valley. Click to read the review.
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Granta publishes an essay of Josh’s, One Ridge Over, about the land and people upon which The New Valley is based. Click to read the essay.
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Events
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READING & PANEL: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
Friday, March 19, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
The Virginia Festival of the Book - VIRGINIA STORIES
Barnes & Noble, 1035A Emmet St., Charlottesville, VA
More info: http://www.vabook.org/site10/program/details.php?eventID=58
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PANEL DISCUSSION: DENVER, CO
Thursday, April 8, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15pm
AWP Conference
Going Long: The Long Short Story
Colorado Convention Center, Rm. 110
More info: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010awpconf.php
*With Suzanne Rivecca, Karen Brown and Christie Hodgen
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PANEL DISCUSSION: DENVER, CO
Friday, April 9, 2009 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15pm
AWP Conference
An Insurgent Surging: The Case for the Novella Now
Colorado Convention Center, Rm. 110
More info: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010awpconf.php
*With Michael Knight, Tom Franklin and Cyndi Reeves
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READING: BETHESDA, MD
Thursday, May 20, 2009 @ 7:30pm
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda MD 20815
More info: https://www.writer.org/
