The Fiery Alphabet, coming up in 2013.
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The first chapter of Emerson Bustamante, the novel still seeking a home, will be in issue 8.1 of Silk Road.
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Click on the title to read about my NYC-noir crime novel, Nobody Wakes Up Pretty,
estimated pub date, May 29, 2012.
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California Transit received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
click here to read more about the book. Or order it here.

 In the photo above: Me with Kevin McCarthy at my reading at Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore. Sadly both the bookstore and the great actor (who was also Mary McCarthy's brother) are no longer with us.
 
From SARABANDE BOOKS
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The Blessing Next to the Wound: A story of art, activism, and transformation with co-author Hector Aristizabal.
Hector's true story of surviving torture and civil war and drug cartels in Medellin, Colombia and how these experiences led to our creation of the play, Nightwind, which has toured the world as part of the movement to end the practice of torture and how all of it informs his and our work for social justice in the US and abroad. Read more about the book here.
From Lantern Books, available in both print and e-book editions from the publisher or your usual book-buying channels. Such as Amazon.
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Two households headed for a violent intersection: a devastated family and an apocalyptic cult....Where do you draw the line you won’t cross? What happens after you cross it?...
A harrowing descent into betrayal, violence, and their aftermath.

Laurie Stone: "...so much compelling writing thundering out."

Gargoyle review: "Diane Lefer's multi-POV novel, written in a cutting, harshly direct Midwestern idiom, deals knowingly, and at times rapturously, with such American verities as religious fanaticism, child abuse, depression, schizophrenia, and the unbelievably cold and endless winters of the Northern plains....Lefer's characters all have a rough time. Some make it, and some don't. Their luck is so hard that the book can be painful to read, like scouring your mind with lye."
 
You can order the novel here.

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Fiction you can read on-line:
Willow Springs has posted online my story, "Sin-Tra-La"  which appears in the Spring 2012 print issue,
along with an interview.

"The Tangerine Quandary" was published in Santa Monica Review and can be read on-line as
part of Doug Glover's wonderful literary site,Numéro Cinq. You can read it here.

The Circles I Move In, stories. Here are links to two of the stories in this collection: "Little Virgins" as it appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review in 1992 and "La Chata," originally published in the South Dakota Review, as posted on-line in Wheelhouse Magazine

The very talented Swiss author and playwright Maya Hostettler has inaugurated a cultural site called Federbar in English and German. (At the site, click on the E at the upper righthand corner if you want English.) In March 2012, she will post my story, "Eydie Gorme Was a Little Spanish Girl," my short play, "Ave Atque Vale," and a chapter from my novel, Radiant Hunger, as it appeared first in the Kenyon Review. Radiant Hunger is available in both print and Kindle e-book editions and you can add your own review of the novel here at AskDavid.com/. You can also read some English translations of Maya's work at the Federbar site along with other intriguing selections. And you'll have to check out the site if you want to find out what Federbar means.

Very Much Like Desire, stories. The opening of the story "Fiesta," as it appeared in Manoa.  

Short short on a postcard! I'm the April 2012 selection (and check out other months, too) from The Postcard Press.

And an essay, "Two Bucks," published in Kudzu Review.
 

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