A new collection of short fiction, IVAN THE TERRIBLE GOES ON A FAMILY PICNIC, will be published in summer 2024.

I'll be teaching 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.

New short stories in 2022 in The Brooklyn Review, Litro, Compressed, Bridge Eight and South Dakota Review.

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.

An interview about George Saunders' Pastoralia: Bookmarked.

See a 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 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 Charles' essay in Library Journal.

See review by Charles of Home by Toni Morrison

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.