http://barretthathcock.com for Barrett Hathcock: person, place, thing Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:27:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello! I am happy to to announce that my first short story collection, The Portable Son, has been acquired by Aqueous Books, a wonderful new independent press brought to you by the same great people who run Prick of the Spindle. It will be published in the fall of 2011 ... http://barretthathcock.com/2010/08/27/the-portable-son-its-officially-forthcoming/ Hello. There is much to link to today. First, I am happy to report that an interview I conducted with novelist Sam Lipsyte is up and ready for reading over at the Quarterly Conversation. This interview is another particle in the overwhelming wave of positive press surrounding his latest novel, ... http://barretthathcock.com/2010/03/16/new-interview-new-review-new-new-new/ Hello. Christmas has officially come early, as the winter issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now up and so excited and running down the stairs in its pajama-clad feet. In addition to my review of Sam Lipsyte's latest novel The Ask, the issue is a stuffed-stocking of reviews and essays. ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/12/10/winter-review-goodness/ Hello, hello, hello. I am pleased to report that my review of Sam Lipsyte's newest novel The Ask is now online at the Quarterly Conversation. Please link right on over there and read it. However, if you are pressed for time now that we are in this Holiday Season, I ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/12/01/the-ask-by-sam-lipsyte/ Hello. I'm happy to report that the latest issue of the Arkansas Review has arrived at better bookstores and libraries everywhere. The issue contains a new short story of mine called "Timber Walking." It also contains--among much else worth investigating--a story called "Selling the Farm" by Sallie Bingham and an essay ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/09/24/arkansas-review-arrives-on-planet-thrives/ Hello. In yet more happy online news, the latest issue of the Quarterly Conversation is out. The issue is bursting at the cyber-seams, containing reviews of the latest from Ishiguro, Vollman, Pynchon, and Hemon, as well as several essays on literature in translation, which has become a specialty of QC. ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/09/09/new-quarterly-conversation-is-out-and-about/ Hello. I'm super pleased to report that my short story "High Cotton" has been published over at Fried Chicken and Coffee, the online blogazine run by Rusty Barns of Night Train fame. The story is about two high school boys who start cotton diving in the afternoons. Much adventure follows. Interesting historical ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/09/04/how-much-cotton-high-cotton/ Hello. In honor of the Michael Jackson memorial, which occurs this afternoon, I am posting an essay written a handful of summers ago but since left unpublished. It's about Ronald Reagan's death and funeral. The ongoing ecstatic whirlwind of MJ coverage reminded me of it. (On the New York Times ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/07/07/mourning-in-america/ Hello. Here is a link to a short story that was somewhat recently published in nth position, an online magazine from Britain. My first international publication! Brought to you here in America (and elsewhere) thanks to the world-wideness of the web.  The story is called "Wilson: Runner" and it is about ... http://barretthathcock.com/2009/05/26/a-fairly-recent-story/ A review of Elizabeth Crane's third short story collection You Must Be This Happy to Enter, which appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of the Quarterly Conversation. http://barretthathcock.com/2009/05/25/a-book-review-in-spring-2009-quarterly-conversation/