One of my favorite story collections of the last decade, maybe ever, is Gary Amdahl’s Visigoth, which was published five years ago by Milkweed Editions. Since the time I read the book I have had the good fortune to build a friendship with Amdahl and even have him blurb my new novel. But doing this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gary Amdahl’
Down with Amdahl
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Amdahl, Milkweed Editions, Visigoth on April 11, 2012 | 20 Comments »
I Shot the Moon, Calamari Press, 35-38 / 41, 3RD BED [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3rd Bed, Ander Monson, Brian Evenson, Calamari Press, Christian TeBordo, Christine Hume, Derek White, Diane Williams, Gary Amdahl, Heidi Lynn Staples, J. A. Tyler, John Dermot Woods, Jose Hernandez, Kenneth James Calhoun, Kim Parko, Luis Buñuel, Nina Shope, Pedro Ponce, Peter Tunstall, Rachel B. Glaser, Tara Wray, Vincent Standley on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Click through to read the full (super-mega) review of 3RD BED [7, 8, 10, &11]
Best of 2011, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aaron Gilbreath, Best of 2011, Big Other, Christopher Higgs, David Peak, Donald Breckenridge, Dylan Hicks, Gary Amdahl, jamie iredell, Johannes Göransson, John Madera, Tim Horvath, Tobias Carroll on December 16, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Lots of great things happened in 2011 for Gary Amdahl, Donald Breckenridge, Tobias Carroll, Aaron Gilbreath, Johannes Göransson, Dylan Hicks, Christopher Higgs, Tim Horvath, Jamie Iredell, and David Peak. Find Part One, here.
Guest Post, by Gary Amdahl: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gary Amdahl, Henry James, The Jolly Corner on May 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“He projected himself all day, in thought, straight over the bristling line of hard unconscious heads and into the other, the real, the waiting life; the life that, as soon as he had heard behind him the click of his great house-door, began for him, on the jolly corner, as beguilingly as the slow opening [...]
Best of 2009 Part One: Book-ish
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Gary Amdahl, Peter Sears, Wells Tower on December 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m glad to be coming in on the whole end of the year list thing at the point where every one is sick of year end lists. Such timing fits my personality well. No doubt, though, that if there is a fun thing about so many lists is seeing how different some of them can [...]