This is absolutely Steve Almond's best book to date. I've read and loved all of his work, but this is the one you must buy and read so that you can lather in its pure brilliance. There is a maturity of theme and content, a patience to detail to his subjects' fine points as well [...]
Review by Bonnie ZoBell Our Lady of Flash Fiction, Meg Pokrass, around since the beginning of flash time, possesses a tremendously unique voice. Her beautiful language rounds out her magical stories. Damn Sure Right, her short-story collection with Press 53, brims with gems. In the title story, a woman is accosted by a man, [...]
Heather Fowler: Suspended Heart Review by Bonnie ZoBell Heather Fowler is Kafka in drag, an American Marquez. If you are looking for a safe little book, one that lines up neatly with other short story collections being published today, then Heather Fowler's SUSPENDED HEART is not the collection for you. It is a book about [...]
I'm very pleased to have had my story "Graveyard" accepted by Wigleaf. The story is quirky and somewhat fun, though also a little sad, but I love the Dear Wigleaf entries on the site just as much as I like the stories. I had a lot of fun writing one of those.
I read recently for So Say We All, a great arts organization in San Diego that does all kinds of wonderful things for arts, for kids, and for the community. Justin Hudnell, So Say We All's Executive Director, a young guy and a writer himself, has brainstormed this wonderful artists haven only in the last [...]
I also got to go to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference this summer. What fun rooming with my pal Katrina Denza! Now there's a sly sense of humor. We both had a great time. I worked with the amazing writer Charles Baxter, who's also a truly excellent teacher. He helped our group get right to the heart [...]
For years I've wanted to go to Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in the hills above Temecula, California. I finally got to go this summer, and I was thrilled. Unlike other colonies I've gone to and thoroughly enjoyed, this one is on the West Coast and only an hour from where I live. And only an hour [...]
I use as much social media as I have time for, but I confess to having a very full-time teaching job at Mesa College, so I can't be involved as some people are. If I were more involved, I'd have even less time to write. I just had my website overhauled with some help from [...]
I'm a fiction writer living in San Diego, California. Currently I'm finishing a collection of connected short stories set in my little pocket of town—North Park. The book is called WHAT HAPPENED HERE, and spotlights a two-block area, all the quirky neighbors that reside there, and a major incident that happened here thirty years ago. [...]