Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas has been named 1 of 5 finalists for The Believer Book Award. Go, Blake! Read it before everyone else in the world does.
Michael Czyzniejewski, who has a new book out, has been getting some great press recently (and by proxy so have we). Read an interview at Fiction Writers Review.
The Dirty Water Reading Series presents its annual “Dysfunctional Family Holiday” reading at Grub Street HQ on Saturday, December 12, featuring holiday-themed mad-libs and short readings by Jane Berentson, DJ Dolack, Bill Donoghue, and William Walsh. As with other installments of the Dirty Water Reading Series, the event promises to be more than your typical reading. There will be audience-participation mad-libs, raffle prizes, free food, spiked eggnog and other drinks, and even some holiday-themed fiction and poetry by the authors!
Just nominated for 2009 Pushcarts: Kirsten Rue’s Spelling, Salvatore Pane’s Fences Fly By, Dylan Nice’s Their Health, and Randall Brown’s It Doesn’t.
The Dirty Water Reading Series presents Cowgirls & Couplets: A Reading Rodeo! Sunday, March 29, 7:00 pm at Grub Street in Boston. Quick Fiction has roped in Blake Butler for this one.