Category Archives: AWP

More AWP scoop from me

Can be found here at Jacket Copy, the LA Times book blog. Other news: – a draft beer at the Hilton will run you $9.75. – Michael Martone is very…

I have pictures of AWP

But I didn’t bring the cable for my digital camera, so you’ll have to wait. Last year I often felt lost and confused at AWP. This year I might be…

Going to AWP

In a bout of shyness, I’ve neglected to mention that my review of Lydia Millet’s How the Dead Dream ran in the Los Angeles Times this past weekend. It’s a…

AWP fashion. Seriously.

To capture the seriously bad fashion of AWP, we employed a decoy maneuver. Someone (Christopher Rowe, Gwenda Bond, Gavin Grant, Jed Berry or me) would pose near the fashion plate….

The most unfortunately named city in America

Hello from Lynchburg! My AWP wrap up is coming, probably after I get home. Until then: Jeff VanderMeer, Gwenda Bond, and Dr. Write.

AWP: Day 2, in words

After Gwenda and Christopher and Jed and Gavin and Kelly stayed up late with me Thursday night and the helicopters began early, my AWP day started at noon. Virtually Infinite:…

AWP: starter photos

Sometimes, during a particularly unengaging panel, I’ll find myself staring at the shiny things on the ceiling. All this and more in my first batch of photos from AWP.

I was at the Wafflehouse

While Gwenda was responsibly blogging about the bus that drove off the overpass right next to our hotel, I was eating grits. Soon all of us remaining at the Days…

AWP’s March madness

The literary magazine one story is hosting an air hockey tournament of litmags and independent presses. It’ll be going on each day of the conference; right about now Tin House…

Atlanta here I come

Last time I went to a convention in Atlanta it was at a meeting of foundation staffers. So I dressed in my best banker-like monkeysuits, stayed at a tony downtown…