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Writers in the Round Starts in Just Minutes at The Belmont

Where the hell is Matt?

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Dubya arrested at the Stray Cats Bar in Shreveport!

             

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Shreveport Police were called to Stray Cats Bar at 222 Travis in Downtown Shreveport just after 2 a.m. Saturday morning. After arriving at the night club police called for backup. Police say Eric Felland, 29, was arrested for resisting arrest and public intoxication. Six others were arrested for interfering with police including actor Josh Brolin, 40. Brolin is in town playing George W. Bush in the movie "W" directed by Oliver Stone. Jeffery Wright, 43, was also arrested. Wright is playing Colin Powell in the film.

Join me at the Hotel Belmont, Thursday, July 17th at 6:30

Why don't you listen to the Starlight Mints?

I love it when my iPhone goes Salvador Dali on me

Tree vs. Civic Hybrid. My Hybrid loses.

The Oxford American's Best of the South 2008 is upon us!

The Oxford American is back and it's back with a vengeance. Their Best of South issue just hit newsstands, and it features a new short story that I wrote about Shreveport and the mythological redheaded flying children who took over the town in the 80s. The cover girl photo by Saverio Truglia could actually be one of the characters from the story.
    In fact, this short story is one of the favorite things that I've ever written. I particularly love the illustration that Ryan Heshka did of the main character and his abandoned babies.
    But if promiscuous super heroes and flying babies aren't your thing, there's  Roy Blount, Jr, Brad Land Pia Ehrhardt, and Louisiana artist Bryan LeBoeuf to delight and inspire you with their various talents.
     But just look at this illustration for my story The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children and tell me you don't need a subscription to this great magazine.

More Love From NPR for the little bastards at The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children

Critics' Lists: Summer 2008

Holy Bookworms! Superheroes Take To The Page
by Glen Weldon
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a ... book?

NPR.org, July 3, 2008 · Quake in fear, puny humans! Spandex-clad superbeings have engineered a mass escape. From big screens and billboards, to bus ads and even bookshelves: this summer, nowhere is safe from superheroes.

Avengers, Assemble! Thematically!

Who Can Save Us Now? Brand New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, edited by Owen King and John McNally, paperback, 320 pages

Superhero tropes turn up in every short story of this new anthology, but its 22 authors eschew the tidy duality of hero/villain to stake out moral territory where the lines between good guys and bad fade to obscurity. As a result, Who Will Save Us Now? is a surprisingly varied read, by turns funny, creepy, melancholic and joyous.   

Editors Owen King and John McNally organize the collection around timeworn conventions — the origin story, the secret identity, etc. The strongest tales focus on supporting characters long denied an inner voice: the plucky girl reporter, the faithful butler, the sidekick — even the townsfolk who spend their days ducking the flying rubble of superbrawls. A standout, Will Clarke's "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children," about a town under siege by the teenage offspring of an alien superhero, feels at once uncanny and utterly, hauntingly real.

Observer love for The Pentecostal Home For Flying Children

Will Clarke, Superhero

Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 11:46:21 AM

Last time local scrivener Will Clark published a short story in a tome edited by John McNally, he was blessed with the caterwauling of a Rhode Island mother who called for his shiny pate on a platter. She didn't take kindly to her kiddo being taught Clarke's autobiographical tale "How to Kill a Boy That Nobody Likes."

Wonder how she'll like his latest short story, title of which is "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children." It appears in the book pictured above, which is due for publication via Simon & Schuster next week, a collection of 22 tales titled Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories , which the editors (McNally and Owen King, also contributors) describe thusly in their intro: "This is just a book, a few hours' diversion, but we believe in heroes, and we need them now, like never before." Will Clarke, of course, is mine. --Robert Wilonsky

Last time local scrivener Will Clark published a short story in a tome edited by John McNally, he was blessed with the caterwauling of a Rhode Island mother who called for his shiny pate on a platter. She didn't take kindly to her kiddo being taught Clarke's autobiographical tale "How to Kill a Boy That Nobody Likes."

Wonder how she'll like his latest short story, title of which is "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children." It appears in the book pictured above, which is due for publication via Simon & Schuster next week, a collection of 22 tales titled Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories , which the editors (McNally and Owen King, also contributors) describe thusly in their intro: "This is just a book, a few hours' diversion, but we believe in heroes, and we need them now, like never before." Will Clarke, of course, is mine. --Robert Wilonsky

Last time local scrivener Will Clark published a short story in a tome edited by John McNally, he was blessed with the caterwauling of a Rhode Island mother who called for his shiny pate on a platter. She didn't take kindly to her kiddo being taught Clarke's autobiographical tale "How to Kill a Boy That Nobody Likes."

Wonder how she'll like his latest short story, title of which is "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children." It appears in the book pictured above, which is due for publication via Simon & Schuster next week, a collection of 22 tales titled Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories , which the editors (McNally and Owen King, also contributors) describe thusly in their intro: "This is just a book, a few hours' diversion, but we believe in heroes, and we need them now, like never before." Will Clarke, of course, is mine. --Robert Wilonsky