MFA Greensboro Alum George Singleton Featured at the "Southeast Review"

The Cult of George Singleton
Introduction
Julianna Baggott

I’ve heard tales all of my writerly life. Bunyan-esque stories. A wild man. A giant personality. A trickster, a wise-ass, a snake-handler, a Guggenpulitzheimer recipient, a bawdy drunk, a newly avowed teetotaler, a genius, a madman.

I seemed to be literarily doomed to the role of following him. If I showed up to give a reading, invariably George had just blown through town. I knew that—by comparison—my readings were tame. It was like the audience had just been treated to the spectacle of a man-versus-bear wrestling match, and now I showed up with a tubercular parakeet in a cage who couldn’t much sing, what with its little parakeet coughs.

Read the entire feature here:
http://southeastreview.org/singleton/

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MFA Greensboro Student Amanda Rutstein Reviews 'Dixmont' for "storySouth"

Rick Campbell's ‘Dixmont’
by AMANDA RUTSTEIN


Dixmont
by Rick Campbell
Autumn House Press, 88 pp., $14.95

How do you reckon yesterday with today? This is the daunting question that Rick Campbell attempts to answer in his 2008 volume of poetry Dixmont. Named for a mental institution in South Pittsburgh, this volume practically pulses with the desire to not only understand but to manipulate time. Each poem manages to capture the swampish heat of Campbell’s Floridian home, as well as the tender affection he seems to have for every life experience.

Read the entire review here:
http://storysouth.com/2009/09/dixmont-rick-campbell.html

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MFA Greensboro Faculty Member David Roderick featured at "TED BURKE, like it or not"

Oliver Douglas gets a clue
Great writing provokes arguments decades after it first appeared, which we can see in David Roderick's poem "Thoreau's Beans".

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http://ted-burke.blogspot.com/2009/10/oliver-douglas-gets-clue.html

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MFA Greensboro Faculty Memeber David Roderick Featured at "Slate"

"Thoreau's Beans"
By David Roderick



Here's the human that exists,
his hunger grasping how to cultivate,
then gorge, and now he wakes

inside the dead-mule smell
of lilac around his cottage,
and now he wrestles with roots . . .

Read the entire poem and listen to the poet read here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2233390/?from=rss

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MFA Greensboro Alum Steve Almond Featured at "salon.com"

The secret diary of Sarah Palin's ghostwriter

A sexual fantasy about Keith Olbermann? Joe Biden nightmares? "Going Rogue" co-author Lynn Vincent tells all

By Steve Almond

Oct. 25, 2009 | Lynn Vincent made headlines when she was selected as the ghostwriter for Sarah Palin's soon-to-be-bestselling memoir, "Going Rogue." As an editor at the Christian World magazine, Vincent has railed against abortion rights, gay marriage and the theory of evolution. She is also the coauthor of the book "Donkey Cons," which purports to prove, among other claims, "how Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy were elected with the help of the mob." Her coauthor on that book, Robert Stacey McCain (no relation to John McCain) has spoken out against interracial marriage.

Salon recently obtained this private diary, which we publish here in excerpted form.

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http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/10/25/secret_diary_sarah_palins_ghostwriter/index.html

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MFA Greensboro Alum Reviewed at "Eva's Book Addiction"

Review of the Prince of Fenway Park by Julianna Baggott
Baggott, Julianna. The Prince of Fenway Park. HarperCollins, 2009.

I read this baseball fantasy at an especially apt time, as the Dodgers crashed and burned for the second year in a row on their way to the World Series. Those who wear Dodger Blue know something about curses…

Still, the Dodgers have nothing on the Boston Red Sox, which as everyone knows suffered a curse that began in 1919 when they sold off Babe Ruth and didn’t end until the 2004 World Series. And how did they shake off that losing streak? Readers of The Prince of Fenway Park will thank one Oscar Egg, a 12-year-old mixed-race child adopted as a baby by two well-meaning but imperfect parents, who soon divorce. As a result, Oscar has always felt a bit out of place.

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http://evasbookaddiction.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-of-prince-of-fenway-park-by.html

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MFA Greensboro Alum Julianna Baggott Reviewed at "Charlotte's Library"

10/20/09
The Prince of Fenway Park, by Julianna Baggott, for Timeslip Tuesday

The Prince of Fenway Park, by Julianna Baggott (Harper Collins, 2009, middle grade, 322 pp) is much more than a time slip story. But because the element of time travel is central to the resolution of the plot, I am happy to feature it as today's Time Slip Tuesday book.

Read the rest of the review here:
http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/10/prince-of-fenway-park-by-julianna.html

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http://mfagreensboro.org