Chronicle Review

The Chronicle Review ran a personal essay I wrote, titled "From Haunted Dreams to Haunted Pages". Using an open-air performance of King Lear in Amherst as the frame, I reflect on my South African childhood, my trip to Rwanda, and writing fiction. If you or your campus has a subscription to the Chronicle, you can read the piece here.

Sunday Salon

The Sunday Salon, a monthly reading in Brooklyn, NY, hosted me on June 24th. It was summer, it was Brooklyn, it was outside. The terrace at Stain Bar had a view of a water tower and the stars. Thanks to the organizer, Nita Noveno, and to Poets & Writers, who funded my trip.

Virginia Quarterly Review

In 1951, when Nadine Gordimer first began publishing stories in the United States, she placed "The Catch" in the Virginia Quarterly Review. This spring, VQR has published another story--a new story--titled "The Second Sense."

Read my extended interview with Ms. Gordimer on the VQR website. She's the author of 14 novels and 10 collections of short stories, including "Six Feet of the Country" and "Livingstone's Companions."

Tin House/SLS Fiction Contest

"Unslung" won a Summer Literary Seminars fiction contest. The story is in the Spring 2007 issue of Tin House. Included in the prize was a trip to a literary festival in Nairobi, and a weeklong retreat on Lamu, a tiny Swahili-speaking island in the Indian Ocean. Lamu's coral-stone town dates back to the 14th century, and has no cars, only dhows and donkeys. Read a travel piece on Lamu in the New York Times.

Newsweek Interview: Gordimer

Read my 2004 interview with Nadine Gordimer from Newsweek magazine.

Bread Loaf

Spent ten happy days in Vermont, in August 2006, as a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, in Vermont. "Waiter" is a glorious synonym for a work-study scholarship.

Tin House Workshop

Attended the 2006 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop in Portland, Oregon, on a fiction scholarship. Check out their website: www.tinhouse.com

Threepenny Review

The Berkeley literary journal, The Threepenny Review, published a short piece of memoir I wrote in their Summer 2005 issue, no. 102. The Threepenny's Reading Room has works online by some of its contributors, which include Jon Berger, Susan Sontag, and Seamus Heaney. www.threepennyreview.com