"Buying Lenin" in Choice Magazine Listening

Choice Magazine Listening is a free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers. CML selects and records memorable writing from approximately 100 leading magazines. The unabridged articles, fiction and poetry are read by professional voices and recorded on four-track cassette tapes. Both the cassettes and the four-track player are provided free of charge.

My story "Buying Lenin" was chosen for the March 2008 issue, which makes me really happy.

I only wish organizations in Bulgaria could start similar programs. Maybe now that we are part of the EU such great ideas will finally be possible?

Buying Lenin in the Best American

Salman Rushdie, this year's guest editor, and Heidi Pitlor have chosen my story, "Buying Lenin," to appear in the 2008 volume of The Best American Short Stories.

There Will Be Blood -- John 16:32

I think this is my favorite American movie now.

Here is a link to a version of the script, which Paramount Vantage has made pubic. Though the title page reads "final script" there are plenty of differences between the text and the actual footage. Makes reading the script all the more interesting...

When Daniel Plainview was sending his boy away by train, the number 1632 painted in white on one of the moving cars, caught my attention.

Here is John 16:32

Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.