Kenyon Review Online, NowTrends, NEA

- My review of Kevin Wilson's wonderful first novel The Family Fang is up over at KROnline. I really enjoyed this book and you will too. On the front page, my review is sandwiched right between David Bartone and Adam Parker Cogbill. I can't think of a better sandwich to be a part of. KROnline is doing great things.

I'm increasingly interested in how literary journals can use the web to do innovative and forward-thinking things--publishing on tighter schedules, incorporating a greater range of genre and focus, and including more materials--and I think the Kenyon Review is doing a lot in this area. It's good to see such a venue embrace the possibilities of the internet. That sounds lame, but I mean it sincerely.

- Karl Taro Greenfeld's collection NowTrends is out now from Short Flight/Long Drive Books. It's available in print (three different versions--collect them all); and if you order through the Hobart website, you'll get a code for a free ebook version too. Other SF/LD books are also available for your Kindle. Get Adam Novy's The Avian Gospels right here, for example.

- I was very excited to read that friends Al Heathcock, Belle Boggs, Ted Sanders and Sabina Murray had all won NEA Grants this year. Huge congrats to them and to all the winners!