Ron Carlson is the author of six story collections and six novels, and his fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, Harper’s, and many other magazines and journals. He is the director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Huntington Beach, CA. Photo credit: UCI Communications Bureau/Christine Byrd.
Fiction
Mar/Apr 2016
Don’t Let Your Bicycle Get Taken by a Thief
I only sit in two places when I go to Vera’s Thai Extra and one is in the window booth and the other is the table in the center, because […]
Fiction
Summer 2011
Esther Donnaly
Esther Donnaly was not an actress, had never been in a play or auditioned for one, or been a fan of movies or a follower of actresses, like many American […]
Nov/Dec 2017
The Conservation of Sleep
After dinner remarks: Rather than outline and delineate our extensive research methods over the past who knows how many years, let me just start with the results, startling as they […]
Jan/Feb 2017
His Hair Was on Fire
You ride the bus long enough, I mean daily for a year or two, maybe three, and you’re going to see somebody’s hair on fire. I’ve seen many other things, […]
Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson’s most recent novel is The Signal (Viking). He directs the graduate program in fiction at the University of California-Irvine. His story, “Esther Donnally,” appears in the Summer 2011 […]