Paula Bomer's Blog, page 10

An Excerpt of NINE MONTHS

Click here to read an excerpt of NINE MONTHS. Thanks Matt Bell at The Collagist for publishing it!

Dennis Cooper posts about Baby and Other Stories

Thank you Dennis Cooper, for your thoughtful and extensive post about Baby and Other Stories.

Publishers Weekly review of NINE MONTHS

PW gives Nine Months a nice review. I'm very grateful- especially for the line "ability to appall". In a perfect world, they'd mention that it's funny, but I'm thrilled regardless.

THE WORLD WITOUT YOU by Joshua Henkin

I had the wonderful pleasure of reading Josh Henkin's The World Without You. Read my review here at Big Other of this gorgeous family saga.

Interview with Ben Tanzer at Rain Taxi Reivew

Thank you Rain Taxi for hosting my discussion  with Ben Tanzer about his wonderful novel, MY FATHER'S HOUSE. It was an edifying experience.

SHORT BUS by Brian Allen Carr on Big Other

I had the wonderful opportunity to write about Brian Allen Carr's Short Bus (Texas Review Press) at Big Other. I wrote about it in regard to Flannery O'Connor's essay "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction" and really enjoyed being able to do so. Read the essay here. And find out more about Carr's amazing collection here.

"Friday Night at Howard Park" at Connotation Press

Thanks to Meg Tuite (we seem to be having a mutual lovefest) for publishing this story, an excerpt from a novella called Inside Madeleine. Click here to read it and to read Meg's interview with me, which was lots of fun.

A Review of Meg Tuite's Domestic Apparition

Thanks Shya Scanlon, for his editorial guidance on my review of Meg Tuite's Domestic Apparition (San Francisco Bay Books). I highly recommend this novel- it's brave, entertaining-all sorts of good things. Click here to read my review at the Nervous Breakdown.

PRE-ORDER KEITH NATHAN BROWN'S EMBODIED NOW!

EMBODIED: A Psycho Soma in Poetry and Prose by Keith Nathan Brown is now available for pre-order! This book is one of the most unique specimens of literature out there. The advance praise has been amazing! Click here to pre-order!
"Keith Nathan Brown's elegantly eclectic book, Embodied, puts the high in hybrid. This is a significant new twist in the double helix of New Formalism's formulae, an architecture of Frank Gehryesque proportions. There is no ironing out all these endless wrinkles, a static wall of balled up sound, stamping with the stutter of an uncanny cunning CAD."
-Michael Martone, author of Four for a Quarter

PRE-ORDER SCOTT WROBEL'S CUL DE SAC NOW!

I am so thrilled to announce that pre-orders for Scott Wrobel's CUL DE SAC are now available. The advance praise has been amazing!
Scott Wrobel is an amazingly sharp and gifted writer, and his debut, Cul De Sac, set in a twenty-first century American suburbia of lost dreams and troubled families, is not only one of the truest and saddest collections of stories I've ever read, but also one of the funniest.
-Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time
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