Over six months have passed since I’ve updated A Writer’s Life in NYC. I’ve been keeping myself very busy behind the scenes. My short story Remordimiento was accepted for publication in Harvard Square Editions’ upcoming anthology, Voice from the Planet, and we have now completed the editing, proofreading, and typesetting process. Below is an initial official announcement from HSE about the anthology, in anticipation of the press release. I’m currently developing Remordimiento into a novel.
Harvard Square Edition’s autumn arrival: Voice from the Planet
Edited by Charles Degelman
May 1, 2010
Award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood join forces in Harvard Square Editions’ second volume of Living Fiction, and they are donating the net proceeds from the sale of this book to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Most anthologies are limited by their themes to a particular town or country, reinforcing entrenched literary nationalism whereby institutionalized literati only appreciate their own. Not Voice from the Planet. This collection of extraordinary voices is unlimited. It will transport you on a globe-trotting adventure from the trauma of an African earthquake to a lush glimpse of love in the jungles of Peru.
Break through to war-torn Congo, to American rebellion of the 1960s, to fire dancing in the mountains of Bulgaria, to high finance on 9/11. You’ll find the unexpected wit and intelligence enthralling.
The second in a series of anthologies edited by Harvard alumni, this Voice from the Planet anthology of Living Fiction is generative. It opens a forum where readers and Planet authors can engage in cyber-literary dialogue via the Internet. Readers can take part in the dialogue by emailing the authors and chatting on the web at www.harvardsquareeditions.org.
Voice from the Planet will be available in the Fall of 2010. In the meantime, please visit the Harvard Square Editions website for more details.
