> news

(please see the appearances page for upcoming readings.)

fall 2008. "what's your most embarrassing moment?" read will's answer in an upcoming installment of jaime clarke's column talk show, which appears in the online magazine fanzine.

08.13.08 to 08.24.08 - will has received a teaching fellowship in fiction from the bread loaf writers' conference.

06.17.08 - free press will publish what you have left in paperback (at right, above).

april 2008 - what you have left will be published as an audio book by recorded books as part of their southern voices series.

12.23.07 - what you have left has been named one of 2007's notable books by the san francisco chronicle.


> media

(please check back for info on forthcoming interviews in glimmer train and south carolina review.)

03.02.0 - read an interview in the charleston post and courier.

11.21.07 - listen to a review on "the river" 94.9 fm in boise, idaho.

09.12.07 - listen to the season five premiere of the happy ending music & reading series (with rebecca curtis, maxine swann, and music by dan bern).

08.13.07 - listen to a radio interview with christopher purdy on wosu-fm (national public radio), columbus, ohio.

august 2007 - read an interview in novel & short story writer's market 2008.

06.22.07 2007 - watch an interview on atlanta & company (wxia-tv channel 11, nbc), which selected what you have left for its borders book club pick in june.

06.12.07 - listen to a radio interview with frank stasio, host of "the state of things" on wunc 91.5 fm (national public radio), chapel hill.

06.10.07 - read a profile in the charlotte observer.

06.07.07 - listen to a review on "all about books" from net radio in nebraska (national public radio).

06.04.07 - read a guest dispatch on maud newton's website.

07.26.06 - read an interview at authortrek.com.

> old news

fall 2007 - what you have left has been selected as a fall 2007 barnes & noble discover great new writers pick.

june 2007 - what you have left has been selected as a borders original voices pick for july.

july 2007 - charlotte weekly has chosen what you have left as the july pick for its joseph-beth booksellers book club.

06.22.07 - will is featured in entertainment weekly's ew 100 issue ("the 100 stars we love right now"), on newsstands through june 29.

june 2007 - what you have left has been selected as a book sense pick for june.

june 2007 - what you have left is featured in this month's issue of o: the oprah magazine.

06.01.07 - what you have left is an ew "pick" in entertainment weekly's summer book preview (june 8).

02.19.07 - see the "advance word" ad (between pages 118 and 119) in the february 19 & 26 issue of the new yorker for the chance to win a free advance copy of what you have left.

01.22.07 - what you have left has been selected as one of nine books featured in the first-fiction issue of publishers weekly (january 22 issue).

01.16.07 - what you have left has been selected for kirkus reviews' special spring preview issue.

02.25.06 - "throw up, then clean up," a mini-essay, appears in rules of thumb: 71 writers reveal their fiction writing fixations (writers digest books), edited by michael martone and susan neville. the book presents brief essays in which authors discuss one "rule of thumb" they rely upon in their writing.

12.26.05 - "atlas towing," which originally appeared in zoetrope: all-story, has received a special mention in 2006 pushcart prize xxx: best of the small presses (pushcart; bill henderson, editor).

10.05.05 - "what you have left," which originally appeared in one story, has been cited among the "100 other distinguished stories of 2004" in the best american short stories 2005 (houghton mifflin; michael chabon, editor; katrina kenison, series editor).