I’ll be on a plane to San Francisco, but if you’ll be in NYC tonight, head to BAR on A – 170 Avenue A @ 11th – at 7:30 PM to see FWR contributor and fictiontastic writer Lee Goldberg read with Meakin Armstrong and Deenah Vollmeras part of the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. From [...]

For Short Story Month itself, Andrew recommends the following collections:
Indie Press: The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell (Graywolf)
University Press: American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Wayne State UP, from the Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Andrew’s Book Club also currently features an interview with author Tracy Winn, whose debut collection of linked [...]

On Thursday, Celeste read at Pete’s Candy Store with Jeffrey Rotter, whose debut novel The Unknown Knowns I’d been curious about. After hearing him read just a short excerpt, I picked up a copy.
If the Dr. Seussish cover and Donald Rumsfeld allusion aren’t alluring enough, check out a sample here, and if Jeffrey Rotter is [...]

Hey, Boston-based writers! If you like western-themed mad-libs, raffles, and good short fiction, don’t miss this Sunday’s Dirty Water Reading Series event.
$1 suggested donation.

Join me tonight at NYC’s Rattlestick Theater for Versus, a series of short plays about competition by FWR contributor Brian Bartels. And if you haven’t yet, check out Brian’s essay “Waiting on Normal Mailer” on FWR.