Promiscuous with experience...
Some stuff that came up while the blog was down that I felt I couldn't quite let pass without comment.
Delia Falconer's The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers was a finalist for the Western Writers of America SPUR Award for Best Short Novel (The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman won and The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion by Loren D. Estleman was the other finalist...)
Claro's Electric Flesh, as translated by Brian Evenson was likewise a finalist for the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation Annual Translation Prize for Fiction (won by Sandra Smith for her translation of Suite Française by Irène Némirovski, no shame in that...)
Great interview with Lynne Tillman on 3AM magazine and another nice piece on American Genius A Comedy on Boldtype
Seen by Peter Manseau in the Washington Post's Home section, atop the coffee table of the house of former Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn—A Good War is Hard to Find.
A three-fer from Bookslut: Colleen Mordor on A Good War is Hard to Find; Jessica Tierney on The After-Death Room, and John Zuarino with the very first English-language interview with African rock-star-in-the-making writer Alain Mabanckou.
And a great new magazine: Mumble.