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NEWS

¤ Charles' next novel, Back in the Game,
will be published in 2012.

¤ A new essay on George Orwell and
eggs will appear in Winter 2011 in
The
New England Review.

¤ New flash fictions are published or
forthcoming in
Caliban Online 5, The
Medulla Review
and Gargoyle.

¤ See here the review of Russell Banks'
Lost Memory of Skin in the New York
Journal of Books

¤ See here the review of Desdemona,
directed by Peter Sellars, with text by Toni
Morrison and music by Rokia Traoré

¤ An essay on "Mind Rhyme" appeared in
the Winter 2009 issue of
The Antioch
Review.

¤
Casa Editrice Fernandel, the Italian
publisher of
The Contractor, has released
its translation:















traduzione: Elena Battista
prezzo: € 14,00
isbn: 978-88-95865-03-4

¤ Centropolygraph has purchased rights
for a
Russian edition of The Contractor.
Release date TBA.
EVENTS

2011

¤ September 9: Reading and conference
about
The Contractor at the colloquium
September 11 and the World: Politics,
Culture & Identity
.UFR Lettres et
Langues, Université de Poitiers, France.

¤
July 17-22: Iowa Summer Writing
Festival, "Novel Fundamentals"

¤
April 8-9: "Still Kicking: George
Saunders and 'Moral Realism'" at the
international conference
The Figure of
the Author in the Short Story,
University of
Angers, France


2010

¤ July 25-30: Iowa Summer Writing
Festival, "Novel Fundamentals"

¤
March 19-20: "As Surely Doomed as
the Hippopotamus:George Orwell and the
Anachronistic Writer", at the International
Conference,
"George Orwell: A Political
Conscience of the 20th Century"

Université de Charles de Gaulle Lille 3,
Lille, France.

2009 & 2008  archive
Short story sampler

Click the title to read
these stories, first
published in
The North
American Review:

Story of Ralph

The Leo Interview