Earlier this month Dinty W. Moore, editor of the micro-essay blog Brevity and all-around nonfiction guy published in the Mississippi Review a piece entitled “Self-Critique”, which he believes to be the shortest essay ever. Here it is:
I have a tendency towards glibness.
Now: I’m not trying to pick a fight with Dinty Moore here. I was [...]
The other night at Busboys & Poets was the release party for The Way We See It, the Capitol Letters student anthology I edited and have written relentlessly about here to over the last eight months. I’m pleased to report that it went tremendously (likely because I had no hand whatsoever in the planning of [...]
So I got my contributor copies of the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 issue of Ninth Letter, which contains an essay/memoir excerpt/whatever I wrote a while back and read a little of at Bread Loaf this past August. The issue, as always, is kind of exquisite. The simple white cover is among my 9L favorites, and though I [...]
Its 2009. Last night, when the clock dinged midnight–after the wife and I clinked glasses at a nice Belgian restaurant in our neighborhood, and commended ourselves for thirteen straight years of finding each other attractive–I sent out a blanket text message to a ton of people wishing them HAPPY FRIGGIN NEW YEAR DAMMIT. Here’s a [...]
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 [...]