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Thursday, December 17, 2009

 

Dr. Russell D. Moore of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary selected Nothing Like An Ocean among his Top Ten Books of 2009. Here's Dr. Moore's review.

 

Saturday, November 28, 2009

 

Bob Hill reviewed Nothing Like An Ocean in the Louisville Courier-Journal.

 

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

 

Jill Adams reviewed Nothing Like An Ocean in The Barcelona Review. My story, "The Persistence of Ice", is also in the new issue of TBR.

 

Saturday, March 21, 2009

 

Josh Kegley recently profiled me in the Lexington Herald Leader.

 

Monday, March 16, 2009

 

Booklist gives Nothing Like An Ocean a very positive review. See my books page for the full text.

 

Friday, March 6, 2009

 

My essay on the musical influences in the stories of Nothing Like An Ocean went live today on the Largehearted Boy blog.

 

Monday, February 16, 2009

 

Larry Muhammad of the Louisville Courier-Journal wrote a feature article yesterday about me, my writing and Nothing Like An Ocean.

 

Saturday, November 15, 2008

 

Learned today, quite by accident, that my story, "Nothing Like An Ocean," was listed by Dave Eggers and Judy Blume as "distinguished" in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008.

 

Monday, November 3, 2008

 

Read today at the Jessamine County Public Library in Nicholasville, KY with the incredibly talented Kyle Minor.

 

Saturday, October 25, 2008

 

I was visiting writer at Southern Illinois University's Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival in Carbondale, IL this weekend, reading from "First Husband, First Wife," serving on an author panel, and meeting many promising young writers.

 

Sunday, July 20, 2008

 

University Press of Kentucky is publishing my second book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean. It is scheduled to appear in spring 2009.

 

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 and Chris Offutt.

 

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 duly humbled and 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.

 

 

 

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Jim Tomlinson has been awarded an Al Smith Fellowship in recognition of artistic excellence for professional artists in Kentucky through the Kentucky Arts council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

 

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