The Wednesday Web Browser: "Our" Professor Matteson, Essay on John Balaban, and Suspicious Signs for Freelancers

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The new issue of Harvard magazine includes this excellent profile of John Matteson and his book, Eden’s Outcasts, a double biography of Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson Alcott. (Before he became an English professor and Pulitzer prize-winning author, Matteson was a lawyer, and he is a Harvard Law School graduate. (Please do not confuse him with the Professor John Matteson involved in this story.)
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John Griswold (alias “Oronte Churm”) has published a moving essay about a mentor, writer John Balaban, in War, Literature & the Arts.
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And in the realm of freelancing, Michelle Rafter offers signs that a magazine is in trouble.

Final Reminder: Jewish Fiction Writers’ Conference

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This weekend, I completed the handout I’ve prepared for my presentation on “Publishing Your Jewish Short Stories,” slated for Sunday, March 15, at the Jewish Fiction Writers’ Conference right here in New York City. It’s a pretty good handout, if I do say so, myself! And it can be yours—if you come to the conference! Registration continues until March 9. Details here.

Friday Find: New Yorker Book Club

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After a test run of sorts with Roberto Bolano’s 2666, the folks over at the New Yorker have launched an online book club. First up: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates. Check out the posts (comments welcome) here. Have a great weekend, everyone.

Tea Party Magazine Seeks Submissions for "The Free Issue"

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Arisa White, Tea Party magazine’s features editor, wrote in earlier this week and asked me to point you all to Tea Party‘s current call for submissions for an issue to be published in June which will be themed “The Free Issue.” Submission deadline is March 20, 2009. You’ll find all the details here. (Tea Party pays honoraria of $10-$50.)