Alabama writer Brad Vice borrowed" chunks of Carl Carmer's 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama for his story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, only he failed to cite his (copyrighted) source. Was it naivete, literary homage or plagiarism?" Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
Writing
“The Fragmentation of Literary Theory”
Is Theory with a capital T dead or more alive than ever? I asked some literature professors. Here's what they said. Read More at Chronicle of Higher Education »
Act of Humanity
"It was in September, at the end of a long and perfectly placid summer, that Cara began to talk about getting a dog, or rather to behave as if she were dangerously on the verge of suggesting it." Read More at Virginia Quarterly Review »
The Mason Takes a Wife
"They all envied me, that day I brought her home. Every one of them, the young men stupid and eager, the married men growing fat in middle age, the old ones creeping along on withered limbs. I could see it in their faces..." Read More at Blue Moon Review »
“East of the Sun”
A short story in the anthology DC Noir, edited by George Pelecanos. Read More at Akashic Books »
