Charles Holdefer
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 fiction has appeared or is
forthcoming in CalibanOnline5, The
Medulla Review and Gargoyle.
¤ See Charles' review of Lost Memory
of Skin by Russell Banks
¤ See Charles' review of Desdemona,
directed by Peter Sellars, text by Toni
Morrison, music by Rokia Traoré
¤ An archive of other reviews can be
found here.
¤ 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