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news & interviews Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I'll be a visiting writer next January at Eastern Kentucky University's newly launched brief-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Other visiting writers will include Julianna Baggott.
February 15, 2008
My story, "First Husband, First Wife," was selected by guest editor ZZ Packer for New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008. The book will be published this fall.
December 5, 2007
Xujun Eberlein interviewed Viet Dinh (a fellow NEA Fellow) and me today on her Inside-Out China blog.
December 4, 2007
It was announced today by the National Endowment for the Arts that I'm among the forty-six writers being awarded a 2008 Literature Fellowship. I'm humbled and duly proud.
October 17, 2007
"The Accomplished Son" was cited as a distinguished story in Best American Mystery Stories 2007 edited by Carl Hiassen.
September 7, 2007
Campus Conversations TV interview is now online.
Aug 28, 2007
"First Husband, First Wife" was cited as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King.
May 12, 2007
The podcast version of Marrie Stone's interview of Jim Tomlinson and Ron Rash is available online now. The program, part of the series "Writers on Writing with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett," originally aired live on April 19 over KUCI-FM in Irvine, California.
February 4, 2007
Daniel A. Olivas reviewed TKTLB in today's El Paso Times. Here's an excerpt:
"Sometimes in a Tomlinson tale, it's difficult to tell the winners from the losers, the resilient from the fragile. But his magic lies in the shadows of people's lives, those dark recesses where uncertainty reigns."
January 31, 2007
TKTLB has been nominated for this year's Kentucky Literary Award in fiction. Winner will be announced at the Kentucky Writers Conference on April 20 in Bowling Green.
January 15, 2007
The Chicago Sun-Times literary listings carried a review by Mary Houlihan of Things Kept, Things Left Behind, praising the way the "tales capture the desires and dreams of small-town, working-class America with heart, humor and a bit of sadness." Click here to read the complete Sun-Times review.
December 31, 2006
The Sunday Lexington Herald-Leader book section featured a review of Things Kept, Things Left Behind, two excerpts from its stories, and an e-mail interview by Herald-Leader books editor Cheryl Truman. This level of coverage of a single book is unusual for the Herald-Leader, and I am thrilled.
December 28, 2006
In the mail today were contributor copies of the fall issue of Five Points. In its pages is my short story, First Husband, First Wife. It's a wonderful literary journal, a strong issue, and I am proud to see my story in its pages.
December 19, 2006
The Pinch, Journal of University of Memphis, has nominated my short story, "Stainless," for a 2007 Pushcart Prize. It joins "First Husband, First Wife in this year's field of nominees. These are the two bookend stories in Things Kept, Things Left Behind.
November 23, 2006
The New York Times reviewed TKTLB, along with Kevin Moffett's book, Permanent Visitors, in today's Thanksgiving day edition.
November 19, 2006
Carole Goldberg has an excellent review of TKTLB in the Sunday Hartford (CT) Courant newspaper today. It should be going out on the LATWP newswires shortly.
November 15, 2006
Maisy Fernandez interviews me about the stories and characters in TKTLB in Louisville arts newspaper Velocity Weekly. They're also serializing my story, "Birds of Providence," this month.
November 7, 2006
Bob Hill profiles me in his Louisville Courier-Journal column.
October 16, 2006
The new issue of Esquire Magazine includes a great endorsement of TKTLB, calling the stories in it the best fiction. Both Jim Tomlinson's Things Kept, Things Left Behind and Rick Bass's latest collection are noted as "books of short stories that prove that the best fiction need not be more than 60 pages."
October 2, 2006
This week I was interviewed in Eclectica magazine. Elizabeth Glixman asked the questions this time. The focus of her questions was my background and how that influences my fiction. Her questions are wonderfully framed, and they're asked with a delightfully humorous touch.
September 12, 2006
Jennifer Prado interviewed me today. Her excellent questions explored areas of the writing craft, of the origins of stories, and how one writer's process works.
September 4, 2006
Today's edition of MJ Rose's Backstory blog has a write-up on the origins of Things Kept, Things Left Behind, both the origins of a few of the stories there and how the collection came together.
August 21, 2006
After a starred review by Kirkus Reviews, University of Iowa Press released Things Kept, Things Left Behind today, moving it from the planned publication date of October 1.
June 27, 2006
I attended Wesleyan Writers Conference this week on a teaching fellowship. In addition to conduction a workshop/seminar session on dialogue in fiction, I read a section from the story 'First Husband, First Wife.' Reactions to both the class and reading were quite positive. In fact, the conference as a whole was a most enriching experience.
June 18, 2006
Review galley copies of THINGS KEPT, THINGS LEFT BEHIND shipped this week, most going to newspapers and book reviewers for notable nation publications, and a few regional ones. University of Iowa Press continues to work hard to bring national attention to the book.
April 29, 2006
I've been awarded a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in fiction at this summer's Sewanee Writers Conference. In 1983, Tennessee Williams left the residual portion of his estate to the University of the South to support "creative writing," this as a memorial to his grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin. In addition to providing a number of fellowships and generous scholarships, the fund partially underwrites the costs of every participant at Sewanee Writers Conference. This gift from Tennessee Williams' is a truly wonderful legacy.
Sewanee Writers Conference takes place over a two-week period each summer, July 18 through 30 this year, at the Sewanee: The University of the South.
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