Well, it's 1:23 in the morning, and we've all had a full week of lounging on couches, playing too many videogames, feeling that giddy too-light feeling of nothing left to write, nothing left to grade, and no more Paul Yachnin articles to read. Submissions are closed, the backlog is cleared, and the ALR office sits mostly empty. Some of us have already busted out our typewriters and our Lite-Brites so we can write again, because writing is that kind of disease, the kind that gets under your skin after a few days. But all that stuff, it's neither here nor there. Because we're doing a book club.
The books are as follows:
Raymond Carver - Collected Stories
Bret Anthony Johnston - Corpus Christi
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Wells Tower - Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Tobias Wolff - Our Story Begins
The theme is first short story collections. The books, they're pretty fabulous. This noise starts now*.
*Or in a few days. Whatever.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A Brief Yet Triumphant Introduction
This is the blog for the staff, volunteers, and friends of the American Literary Review. We'll be posting about our experiences working at ALR, book reviews, essays about craft, pieces of fiction/poetry/nonfiction from both the magazine itself and from our reading series, interviews with authors, and other stuff like that as it comes to us.
Our plan is to start in very shortly with our summer reading list. This started out as a special problems course dealing with first short story collections, but now it's kind of ballooned out of control. We'll be reading Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Bret Anthony Johnston's Corpus Christi, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Raymond Carver's collected stories, and Tobias Wolff's collected stories. You should read along. They are good books.
I'm Zach. I'm one of the people who works at ALR. I won't write an official intro now, because I'm currently the only one with access, and, well, that just seems gauche.
(I'm using the word gauche a lot lately)
Our plan is to start in very shortly with our summer reading list. This started out as a special problems course dealing with first short story collections, but now it's kind of ballooned out of control. We'll be reading Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Bret Anthony Johnston's Corpus Christi, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Raymond Carver's collected stories, and Tobias Wolff's collected stories. You should read along. They are good books.
I'm Zach. I'm one of the people who works at ALR. I won't write an official intro now, because I'm currently the only one with access, and, well, that just seems gauche.
(I'm using the word gauche a lot lately)
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