Buying Lenin
October 2008
My story "Buying Lenin" is
featured in the
2008 Best American Short
stories. The story was originally published in the Fall 2007 issue
of The
Southern Review. You can read an excerpt here...
and an essay on how I wrote the story here...
Tobacco Wedding
May 2008
"Tobacco Wedding" was published in the Spring 2008 issue of Blackbird.
You can read the whole story here or on
Blackbird.
Devshirmeh
September 2005
"Devshirmeh" was my first publication in English. Summer 2005 - The
Southern Review. You can read a story excerpt here...
On Writing
September 2008
"The Myth of the Muse" is an essay I wrote for Blackbird about the way I write. "Miroslav Penkov," they say on their site, "writes about fear and the myth of the muse. He explores the process of recording a character’s actions and telling a story with honesty, while noting each story’s curious origin and development." You can read the essay here.
An Interview, in Bulgarian
Summer 2008
If you happen to read Bulgarian, here is an interview with me in Capital Light, in which I speak, with great gravitas, of the essence of literature, both World and Bulgarian. Приятно четене...