Charles Holdefer
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