Archive for January, 2007

The weather here is static: cold, cold, cold.  I haven’t seen the sun in days, although there’s actually blue in the sky this morning.  It’s been a perpetual white ceiling of clouds, smog, sagging precipitation.  The white fog puts a drag on the day, gives an inevitable feel to wakefulness and sleepfulness; days, evenings, and [...]


Check out the Eudora Welty Project at Georgia State University: January 15–March 1, 2007

The Eudora Welty Project honors the late Southern author and observes the 10th anniversary of GSU’s literary journal Five Points with two simultaneous exhibitions organized by Welch School faculty member Teresa Bramlette Reeves and gallery director Cathy Byrd. Petrified Man displays our [...]


First, let me say I loved The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides). I did.  The characters, the setting, the innovations in the narration, all impressed and moved me.  I could go on and on about the narrative techniques–the collective retrospective point of view, the compiling of exhibits and interviews, the foregrounding of the inevitability of the [...]


Steph has a Best Books of 2006 list up at Natural / Artificial.
The Creative Loafing “Blood” party at Eyedrum was fun–corpses, limbs, blood, and all.  You can read the first place story here.  Also, from that page you can find the second and third place stories, podcasts of each of the authors reading their stories, interviews with [...]