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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Ryan Call Joins the Parade of Accomplishment, led by Many People I Know

Over the past week, many People I Know have had good things happen to them: publications–well, mostly publications. Lots of them, and good ones. Some stories, some poems, some actual, real-life books.

Get your own - Open publication

But the only one I can really show anyone is Publishing Genius’ recent release of  Pocket Finger, an online [...]

I Get Quoted in the Newspaper, Expose Myself as a Substandard High School Student. Give Some Money Anyways.

A few weeks ago I spoke with Stephanie Kanowitz, a writer at The Current Newspapers researching a story on this neat little project I’m helping to organize with Cardozo High School for Capitol Letters Writing Center.
It was the first time I’ve ever been interviewed by a reporter (I’m usually the one asking the questions), I [...]

Book a Week Until I’m 31. Week 1: The Hundred Brothers, by Donald Antrim

For the weeks leading up to my 31st birthday, I’ll be reading a selection a week from a stack of about eleven books that I probably should have read by now, then writing tiny essays about what they make me think of. Kind of like Ex Libris, but less, intellectually, of whatever it is Anne [...]

Well, this is Exciting.

Last week, Jodee Stanley, the editor of Ninth Letter, sent me the proofs for the essay/memoir excerpt I have coming out with them in a month or so.
I don’t mind saying: It. Looks. Tremendous.
For those of you who don’t know, Ninth Letter is one part literary journal, one part elegant design experiment. Each piece of [...]

OK, New Game: Book a Week Until I’m 31.

I have roughly two and a half months until I turn thirty-one. Eleven weeks, to be exact. Year thirty has so far been quite a good one: I had a bunch of stuff show up in publications, won some awards, made some good strides towards something that might one day resemble a “manuscript”, became a [...]