Charles Holdefer

EVENTS

2018

¤ July 15-20: See you in Iowa City at
the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
“Who’s Talkin’ Here?”: Dialogue vs.
Narration in Prose Fiction
Check it out.

¤ July 18: "Making and Breaking
Taboos" at the Eleventh Hour Lecture
Series, 100 Phillips Hall, University of
Iowa, 11:00 a.m.

2017

¤ March 16: Rencontre L E A R
Lire et Ecrire à La Rochelle, France.
Lycée Dautet et Lycée Saint Exupéry.

¤ May 4: Reading at University of
Leuven, Belgium, for the ENSFR
conference: "Short Fiction: Co-texts
and Contexts."

¤ June 18-23: Come to Philadelphia!
Rosemont Writers' Retreat. Workshops
and readings. Check it out.

¤ June 23: Reading at Kistler Library,
Rosemont College, Rosemont,
Pennsylvania. 12:00 p.m.

¤ July 19: Reading at Prairie Lights
Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa. 7:00 p.m.

¤ July 16-21: See you in Iowa City at
the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Check it out.  

NEWS


¤ See an interview about George
Saunders' Pastoralia: Bookmarked.

¤ Critic Charles May discusses George
Saunders' Pastoralia: Bookmarked

¤ A new collection of short fiction has
just been released: Dick Cheney in
Shorts.

¤ See a review of King Lear with
Glenda Jackson in the lead at
London's Old Vic.

¤ "The Raptor" has won a Pushcart
Prize! It's in the 2017 anthology.
















Special thanks to the Chicago
Quarterly Review!

¤ A new short story, "Big and Nasty," is
in The New England Review.

¤ See a review of Józef Mackiewicz's
important novel Road to Nowhere.

¤ See Charles' review of George
Saunders' Tenth of December in New
York Journal of Books.

¤ See an essay in Library Journal.

¤ See reviews by Charles of Home by
Toni Morrison and Stripped by Nicole
Monaghan, ed.

¤ Brooklyn's Slice magazine has
chosen the short story "Just Desserts"
for its Spotlight feature.

¤ For Kurt Vonnegut and pastoral
sounds, see here.

¤ See Charles' review of Desdemona
directed by Peter Sellars, text by Toni
Morrison, music by Rokia Traoré  

¤ For a list of all reviews by Charles,
see here

¤ An essay on "Mind Rhyme"
appeared in The Antioch Review.

¤ Casa Editrice Fernandel, the Italian
publisher of The Contractor, has
released its translation:














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