Charles Holdefer
Charles Holdefer

NEWS
¤ See a new piece in Thought Catalog
about Junot Diaz and Garrison Keillor:
strange bedellows in boosterism...
¤ See Charles' interview of Marc
Schuster about his forthcoming novel,
The Grievers
¤ An essay, "Orwell's Hippopotamus",
appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of
The New England Review.
¤ New flash fiction has appeared or is
forthcoming in CalibanOnline5, The
Medulla Review and Gargoyle.
¤ For more short fiction, see here
¤ See Charles' review of Lost Memory
of Skin by Russell Banks
¤ See Charles' review of Desdemona,
directed by Peter Sellars, text by Toni
Morrison, music by Rokia Traoré
¤ For an archive of all reviews by
Charles, see here
¤ An essay on "Mind Rhyme"
appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of
The Antioch Review.
¤ Casa Editrice Fernandel, the Italian
publisher of The Contractor, has
released its translation:
traduzione: Elena Battista
prezzo: € 14,00
isbn: 978-88-95865-03-4
¤ Centropolygraph has purchased
rights for a Russian edition of The
Contractor.
Release date TBA.

EVENTS
2012
¤ July 19: The Next Chapter
Bookstore, 202 E. Robinson Street,
Knoxville, IA.
¤ July 23: "Eleventh Hour" Speaker
University of Iowa, 11: 00 a.m.
¤ July 24: "Live at Prairie Lights"
7:00 p.m.Prairie Lights Books
15 S. Dubuque, Iowa City, IA
WSUI (910 AM) and WOI (640 AM &
90.1 FM)
¤ July 22-27: Iowa Summer Writing
Festival, "Novel Fundamentals"
event archives