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Congratulations to Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s Story Collection Selected as B&N Discover Great Books Pick

 July 23, 2009 - Ann Arbor, MI —Dzanc Books is excited to announce that Laura van den Berg’s short story collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, has been selected by Barnes and Noble to be a Discover Great Books pick for the Holiday season.  The collection is set to be published by Dzanc in mid-October and both Laura and Dzanc are excited to have What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us continue to receive this sort of recognition.

The title story of Laura's collection will appear in The Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (November 2009, Pushcart Press).  Laura has also had another story from What The World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 (2008, Houghton Mifflin), and yet another that will be in Best New American Voices 2010 (October 2009, Mariner Books).  As for Dzanc Books, Laura's selection continues the high regard their books have received lately, in particular their short story collections.  The Kansas City Star included 3 collections published by Dzanc or their imprints in their Top 10 Story Collections of 2008.  Two Dzanc collections also won medals in last year’s IPPY Awards.

Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief had this to say about What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: 

“Laura van den Berg finds the tension between science and magic and walks it like a tightrope.  Any reader will be glad to have found it.”

About Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award, and the 2009-2010 Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College. Her fiction has or will soon appear in One Story, Boston Review, Epoch, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, StoryQuarterly, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses, among other publications. The winner of the Dzanc Prize, Laura’s first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, will be published by Dzanc Books in October 2009.

Best of the Web 2009 Internet Invasion Today

Dzanc's Best of the Web 2009 is invading the internet today, with many of the authors included in this year's anthology participating in guest posts across the literary blogosphere.  Below you can find links to them (quick note - this has been pre-posted and a few of these may not go live until a bit later during the day):

Marcela Fuentes has a guest post over at Clifford Garstang's Perpetual Folly.

M. Thomas Gammarino writes about his story over at The Short Review's blog (along with a great introduction by Tania Hershman!).

Todd Hasak-Lowy's guest post can be found just below this one at the EWN.

Matthew Derby's post about his story is at www.mdbell.com.

Philip Holden was given the reins for a post over at Isak today.

Amy L. Clark has a guest post you can read at Sean Lovelace's It All Relates 2 Writing.

Corey Mesler's guest post can be found at the PANK Magazine blog.

Kate Peterson at Brevity's blog, has a post up too.

Amber Cook writes about her work over at Keyhole Magazines's blog.

Jeff Parker writes about his story over at HTML Giant.

Karen Heuler wrote one up for All Art Everywhere Is Free.

Terese Svoboda's essay about her short essay can be found at GDCS + SWDP.

And David at Large Hearted Boy has added a new book notes today with write-ups from over a dozen of the BotW authors.

Thanks to all of these wonderful sites for helping us spread the word about this great anthology!