NEWS: Matt Baker's new novel, Drag the Darkness Down, is now available here. For a description and an excerpt, check out our "novels" page.
MORE NEWS: The folks at Five Borough Book Review have called Ben Segal's 78 Stories "replete with sympathy, humor, and insight" during the course of this review. Shortly thereafter, they explored iteration, Nabokov, and literary puppeteering with Ben during the course of this interview.
EVEN MORE NEWS: William Walsh's "question" stories, previously featured on our online story archive, have found a home at Keyhole Press as part of a book-length collection. You can find out more here.
CRITICAL NEWS: DIAGRAM called Ben Segal "... a witty observer of people's awkward foibles" during the course of a thoughful review of 78 Stories, which can be found here.
UNFORTUNATE NEWS: David Foster Wallace is no longer with us. Speculation and sadness abound. Jared Roscoe, one of the writer's former students, offers this intelligent, straightforward reflection at N+1.
STILL MORE NEWS: The Elegant Variation, one of the best literary blogs around, recently handed the reins to Zach Amendt, who led several days of discussion about writing and rural California. Read it here.
HEADLINE NEWS: We were wondering what NRP blogger Jared Roscoe was doing in his spare time in the Philippines. Turns out he was writing an article on the state of Vietnamese Buddhism, which Tricycle has published.
NEWEST NEWS: Why is the New York publishing industry the Iran of corporate capitalism? Miles Newbold Clark, NRP's Founding Editor, attempts to explain why during the course of this inteview.
NEWER NEWS: Ben Segal, who just wrapped up his whirlwind 78 Stories book tour, has been interviewed here and reviewed here and here. Thanks to Orange Alert, Diet Soap and the Hipster Book Club for thier generosity.
NEW NEWS: Josh Potter, another 2008 Red Anthology contributor, was selected as a finalist for Opium Magazine's Bookmark Story Contest. This flash-fiction work, Opposable One, can be read here.
RECENT NEWS: Zach Amendt, a 2008 Red Anthology contributor, recently garnered a "Notable Story" nod from storySouth for his Casa de Serenidad; the same piece will be included in Dzanc Books' "Best of the Web" anthology.
OLD NEWS: The 2008 Red Anthology, featuring work from a Canadian social worker, a Polish schoolmarm, a desert-bound journalist and many others, is now available on Amazon. We'll have it on our website shortly.
OTHER NEWS: Cassie Taylor, TRA 2007's youngest contributor, was recently admitted to Princeton University. She'll most likely be studying astrophysics, though we're reasonably certain there's more writing in her future.
FIXED NEWS: NRP's new blog has already attracted the attention of a Gawker alum. Thank you, Gawker.
BREAKING NEWS: A refugee worker in the Philippines, an editorial assistant at a Buddhist periodical, and a poet-at-large have taken highbrow lit crit to the blogosphere - and brought NRP along for the ride.
JUST-BROKEN NEWS: The Outside Writers Collective called None of That Will Do. Now What? "one of the best books of 2007," drawling parallels to Denis Johnson and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the process. More here.
BETTER NEWS: The kind folks at the Utne Reader have favored our 2007 Red Anthology with a few words.
GOOD NEWS: We just returned from NRP artist Yuriko Katori's first Manhattan gallery exhibition; it was grand. The New York Times thought so, too.
