A belated roundup

It’s better to get rejected by the best than not to have tried: Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells young reporter, “If I give an interview to you I have to give an interview to everyone.” (via)

Here’s a way to get some love: storysouth’s Million Writers Award is now accepting nominations. Readers & writers can nominate any story published online in 2006.

Inside literary magazines: a few notes from a panel last night in San Francisco, which included editors of Zyzzyva and McSweeney’s.

Got $1,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Why no go to the Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers, June 6-11?

Front Porch 2.0: Barry Hannah! Video of Denis Johnson!

A Public Space #3 is out. But wait, I’m still enjoying #2!

New reviews up at January Magazine of T. Jefferson Parker’s Storm Runners, Don Hannah’s Ragged Islands and Catherine Jinks’ Elysium.

Are agents necessary? Identity Theory says maybe not, but then again, maybe so.