Hugely grateful to the good people at Kirkus for the kind pre-pub review and for including THE ISLE OF YOUTH on their list of "Fall's Most Anticipated." … [Read more...]
Interview in Publisher’s Weekly!
Thanks to Publisher's Weekly for letting me talk secrets, lies, & Javier Marías. … [Read more...]
THE ISLE OF YOUTH Makes L Magazine’s Fall Preview!
Thrilled to spot THE ISLE OF YOUTH The L Magazine's Fall Preview: What You Need to See, Read and Hear. Here is what the editors have to say: "When we read van den Berg’s One Teen Story story, it was so great we immediately went and bought her story collection. And now she has … [Read more...]
On Residencies
This is the last day of my residency at The Studios of Key West and I've been thinking a lot about "Go Away," a beautiful essay that Alexander Chee wrote about residencies. In the essay, Alex talks about needing "...a mystical device I could use to step inside another world and … [Read more...]
The Imitation Exercise
I do this one most semesters and it goes like this: Type up a bunch of passages from published short stories that demonstrate techniques you would like your students to imitate. I like to do enough passages that each student will draw something different, but you don’t have … [Read more...]
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