JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher

Robert Swartwood has put out a call for submissions to his anthology of  “hint” fiction that will tentatively be published by W.W. Norton, fall of 2010. Here’s a link to the guidelines:
Hint Anthology Guidelines

A new fiction piece:
▪ “The World According to Arthur Arluck” (Underground Voices)

Some new reviews:
▪ Review of Peter Selgin’s Life Goes to the Movies (The Diagram)

▪ Review of Aleksandar Hemon’s Love & Obstacles (Open Letters Monthly)

▪ Review of Translation in Practice, edited by by Gill Paul (New Pages)
The Interrogation (Bookslut)

My wife and daughter are in New Hampshire for three weeks, and while I’m happy that my wife is working on her masters in dance therapy, I’m still sad. And I’m continuing to bum myself out with my marathon listening session of the Jackson Five and MJ’s solo stuff.

But on the brighter side, the July issue of The Chapbook Review is up. It features a conversation between Shya Scanlon and Nicolle Elizabeth about Scanlon’s Poolsaid. Following that are reviews by J.R. Angelella, Matt Bell, Andrew Borgstrom, Matt DeBenedictis, Tina Hall, Josh Maday, J. A. Tyler, and John Dermot Woods.

Here’s a link to the introduction:
http://thechapbookreview.com/2009/07/01/welcome-to-the-chapbook-review/

And a link to the issue itself:
http://thechapbookreview.com/current-issue/

Thanks to all the contributors! It’s so great to work with you on this.

Please spread the news far and wide.

Here’s some work of mine that’s been published recently:

▪ New story: Was What It Was (ArtVoice)

▪ Review of Everything Was Fine Until Whatever by Chelsea Martin (The Rumpus)

▪ Review of AM/PM by Amelia Gray (Word Riot)

▪ Review of Log of the S.S. Mrs Unguentine by Stanley G. Crawford (Tarpaulin Sky)

▪ Review of The Mirror in the Well by Micheline Aharonian Marcom (Tarpaulin Sky)

▪ The Last Book I Loved: Fog & Car (The Rumpus)