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The American writer Eleanor Clark, upon moving to Rome in the late 1940s, found herself swamped by the city's "mess and the blazing sun, the incongruities, the too-muchness of everything." That's a pretty fair analogy for how one feels reading Chasing the Sun: it's fascinating, but the "too-muchness" of the experience gradually overwhelms. From Tales of sun and Pluto run hot and cold, a November 28 column in the Boston Globe.

Amazon names Top 10 Fiction Titles of 2010 and Memory Wall is #9.

Anthony has the opening story in the 2011 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and he has an essay in a cool new book titled Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book, edited by Sean Manning. It's all about writers finding real, paper copies of books and falling in love with them.

Best Living Idaho Writer? That's highly doubtful, but warm thanks to all the voters.

Anthony writes about gigantic Frisbees and whale carcasses and huge smacks of jellyfish demolishing salmon farms, as well as the future of global warming, in a chilling new essay for TMN.

Tony writes about gigantic Frisbees and whale carcasses and huge smacks of jellyfish demolishing salmon farms, as well as the future of global warming, in a chilling new essay for The Morning News.

I have a new short story about salt mining, the Great Depression, maternity wards, and aquariums in the Fall issue of Zoetrope: All Story, designed by the crazily talented Kara Walker. You can read a glowing review of the story and the issue at The Rumpus.

Once we improve sequencing and cell-transformation technologies, a well-to-do couple hoping to have a child could potentially create tens of thousands of embryos. Screen them all, select the strongest, smartest, prettiest, and — bingo — designer children. From Mastering Our Own Evolution, a September 19 column in the Globe.

Raves for Memory Wall at Orion, The Millions, Plain Dealer, New West and Los Angeles Times.

Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive of the launch of Memory Wall over the past few weeks!  I deeply appreciate all the warm emails.


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