Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Fabulous Fiction: Avery 4


Wonderful news from Emma Straub:

Dear people who like to read,

I am pleased to announce the arrival of Avery 4, a literary magazine brimming over with delicious stories. Hannah Tinti! Kevin Canty! Samar Fitzgerald! Several more, some of whom you may know personally! The stories are about sex and pets and haircuts and cacti and all the things that you love the most.



Copies and subscriptions can be purchased on the Avery website, found at www.averyanthology.org. Previous issues, featuring stories by Dan Chaon, Ander Monson, Stephen Dixon and others, are also still available! Surely you want a complete set. You can learn more about Avery on our blog, found at www.averyanthology.blogspot.com. It's also a wonderful place to find out what I read on airplanes and to read my erudite thoughts on teenage movie stars. Fun for all!

If you live in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find Avery at Borders West, A Room of One's Own, and Avol's.

Three cheers for stories and those who love them!

Yours editorially,

Emma Straub
co-editor
Avery: An Anthology of New Fiction
www.averyanthology.org
www.averyanthology.blogspot.com

Friday, January 23, 2009

Delicate Edible Birds


A rich, full semester of readings begins next Thursday, January 29, at 7:00pm at Borders West when University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA alum Lauren Groff reads from her exquisite new collection of stories, Delicate Edible Birds.

"Tales of ordinary transformations and everyday occurrences are made magical in a collection of nine stories by Groff... The 'wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous' nature of the elements may serve to explain the power in these stories, which could have faltered in the hands of a lesser writer."
Kirkus Reviews

Lauren will also give a Q&A for students at 4:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

Lauren Groff was born in 1978 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, One Story, and Five PointsFive Chapters, and in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. She was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville, and has had residencies and fellowships at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center.

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