News About Recent Contributors

Congratulations go out to:

• Daniel Alarcón, whose essay “You Do Not Represent the Government of the United States” has been selected for the 2009 edition of The Best American Travel Essays (Houghton Mifflin).
• John Ghazvinian, on being appointed a 2009 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
• Dimiter Kenarov, whose essay “Game Over, Perseverance, All I Want Is Everything” has been selected for the 2009 edition of The Best American Travel Essays (Houghton Mifflin).
• Gregory Orr, whose essay “Return to Hayneville” in our Summer 2008 issue has been chosen for both the 2009 edition of The Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin) and the new edition of The Best Creative Nonfiction (Norton, July 2009).
• Tom Sleigh, whose essay “The Deeds” has been selected for the 2009 edition of The Best American Travel Essays (Houghton Mifflin).
• Lisa Russ Spaar, recently chosen for a Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

New books by recent contributors:

• Blake Bailey - Cheever: A Life (Knopf, March 2009).
• John Casteen - Free Union: Poems (Georgia, March 2009).
• Rita Dove - Sonata Mulattica (Norton, April 2009).
• Albert Goldbarth - To Be Read in 500 Years (Graywolf, April 2009).
• Jim Harrison – In Search of Small Gods (Copper Canyon, April 2009).
• Laleh Khadivi – The Age of Orphans (Bloomsbury, March 2009).
• Debra Nystrom - Bad River Road: Poems (Sarabande, April 2009).
• Gregory Orr - How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon, April 2009).
• Charles Simic - That Little Something: Poems (Mariner Books, April 2009) and The Renegade: Writings on Poetry and a Few Other Things (George Braziller, April 2009).
• Charles Wright – Sestets: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2009).