Christopher Barzak

Category: Recommendations

  • To Japan:

    Muah! XO, Chris The Bird and The Bee – “Love Letter to Japan” Thanks, Karen! 🙂

  • Total Oblivion

    If you didn’t already know, Alan DeNiro’s first novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less, is now out, and you should be reading it, cause it is fantastic.  And while you’re at it, if you missed his short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, from a few years back, you should take…

  • Nebula time

    Calling all speculative fiction writers and readers: The Nebula Award nomination period is now open! The rules have changed a lot this year, and I’m excited to see how those changes are reflected in the preliminary and final ballots. Alas, I’ve read almost nothing but books assigned for my MFA degree and my own students’…

  • Amazon Top 10

    The second volume of Interfictions releases today, and just tonight I learned that the anthology has been selected by Amazon.com as one of the top 10 SFF books of 2009! You can see the whole list by clicking here. I can’t wait to hear what readers think of the selection of stories Delia and I…

  • Running in the shadows

    An article from the NYT on the rise of teenaged runaways over the past few years, as the economy has worsened. It’s sad and, for me, recognizable.  One of the things I encountered every now and then when I was going around reading from my first novel, One for Sorrow, after its release a couple…

  • The Broken Teaglass

    This past spring, I was passed a debut novel from an editor at Delacorte Press, asking if I’d read it.  It’s called The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault.  It’s an interesting novel, set in a dictionary company, with a mystery hidden in the files of word citations, buried there for others to find by a…

  • Stonefield

    Another new story is up in the Interfictions online Annex.  This week, “Stonefield” by Mark Rich. Days at the drafting table had provided such neat mental constructions – perfect lines and angles within which he could situate himself, to feel measured and squared… he must have slipped away from sensing the roundness and fullness of…

  • Are you reading?

    Last week I posted an excerpt from the introduction to Interfictions 2 here, and a link to the whole deal.  But we also now have two of our Annex stories live online.  Have you checked them out yet?  The first one is Genevieve Valentine’s “To Set Before the King” and this week’s addition is F.…

  • We’re getting ready

    If you’ve managed to forget that the second volume of Interfictions is being released later this fall, I certainly haven’t.  We’re getting ready to start posting our Annex stories online, as we lead up to the publication date of the book itself, but today, over at the Interstitial Arts Foundation’s website, you can already take…

  • The Bear Dresser’s Secret

    My good friend Richard (Rick) Bowes has published a story at Electric Velocipede called “The Bear Dresser’s Secret”.  It’s a very different sort of story from the kind Rick is known for.  Instead of a gritty, contemporary New York City, or a working class 1950s Boston, here Rick enters a much more playful realm of…