Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

Read

October 5, 2006 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

Out: buying novels. In: buying your way into novels.

Even if you wanted to quit your day job, it’s pretty unlikely.

What’s the point of a college education, anyhow? Partying, right? No, wait, I’ve got it: football.

I’ve been irritated with Dawkins’ new book, especially where he “addressed” famous agnostics’ claims by saying simply that they didn’t mean what they wrote–disingenuous, and, one would hope, beneath him. Now, I am pleased to discover I am not alone.

PEN awards now accepting submission calls.

Masters of American Comics at the Jewish Museum in New York (via fade theory).

Want to write about brain science? For about $500 American?

Happy Poetry Day! The Book Depository celebrates with an interview of Scottish poet Jackie Kay.

Online subscriptions to newspapers are up, even among the illiterate young. (via ArtsJournal)