I'll be teaching "The Balancing Act" in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, June 22-27. Come join me.
Come to the Brussels book launch of IVAN THE TERRIBLE GOES ON A FAMILY PICNIC on March 13, 7 to 9 p.m (reading at 7:30) at The Green Door Gallery, 21 rue Murillo, B-1000 Brussels.
Thanks to Nicole Yurcaba and Heavy Feather Review for a thoughtful review of IVAN THE TERRIBLE GOES ON A FAMILY PICNIC.
See interview about IVAN in Philadelphia Stories.
Thank you to podcast interviewers Rebekah Buchanan and Scott Bolohan at the New Books Network and The Twin Bill.
New short fiction, "A Story from the Last Book," is published in the anniversary issue of Chicago Quarterly Review.
Come to Rosemont College Writers' Retreat July 5-12. I'll be participating at a roundtable July 10 and on July 11 discussing my new collection of short fiction, IVAN THE TERRIBLE GOES ON A FAMILY PICNIC
Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, July 15 at 7 p.m.
I'll be teaching "Going the Distance" in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, July 14-19. More information here.
See new flash fiction in The Opiate, "Dearest Reader" and "No Cigar"
Come to my talk about DON'T LOOK AT ME and literary appropriation at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw, April 20, 4:45 p.m. at Dobra 55, Warsaw.
Come to the Brussels book launch of DON'T LOOK AT ME on November 30, 7 to 9 p.m (reading at 7:30) at The Green Door Gallery, 21 rue Murillo, B-1000 Brussels.
See reviews of DON'T LOOK AT ME in The Dactyl Review and Heavy Feather Review.
Interview about DON'T LOOK AT ME at JMWW with Curtis Smith. Radio podcast interview on "In Depth" with Dr. Bob Leonard at KNIA/KRLS.
See Charles' review of Patricia Lockwood's No One is Talking About This
Thanks to Largehearted Boy for sharing my Agitprop playlist.
Thanks to Rain Taxi Review of Books for generous coverage of AGITPROP in the fall issue.
Review from Genii Magazine of Magic Even You Can Do.
See Charles' review of King Lear with Glenda Jackson in the lead at London's Old Vic.
"The Raptor" has won a Pushcart Prize! Special thanks to the Chicago Quarterly Review.
A new short story, "Big and Nasty," is in The New England Review.
See Charles' 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 Charles' Backtalk essay on the "American Library Oasis" in Library Journal.
See Charles' review of Home by Toni Morrison.
For Charles' essay on 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.
Charles" essay on "Mind Rhyme" appeared in The Antioch Review.
Casa Editrice Fernandel, the Italian publisher of The Contractor, has released its translation.
