October 30, 2006
For the High Schoolers in Your Life…
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize competition begins November 1. Open to high school sophomores and juniors, the winner will be published in The Kenyon Review and win a scholarship to […]
October 30, 2006
Short Takes
On paper, a joke is a pale and inadequate one-dimensional version of itself. In fact, a joke scarcely exists until someone has told it and someone else has laughed. The […]
October 28, 2006
Short Takes
For those of you music nerds who read the New York Times piece about “Apache,” here’s the soul sides “Apache” compendium. She includes some gossip: the famous novelist who tells […]
October 27, 2006
Ha Jin: The Writer as Migrant (II)
Every writer who makes it no doubt lives a life full of the same tales of early struggle and penniless ignominy. This was one of the subjects Ha Jin addressed […]
October 27, 2006
KR Fiction Editor Chimes In
Hello, everyone. I’m Nancy Zafris, the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review. I’ve been invited to say a few words now and then, preferably words of wisdom regarding submission -> […]
October 27, 2006
Short Takes
The entire editorial board of the prestigious mathematics journal Topology has resigned to protest the pricing policies of the journal’s publisher, Elsevier, a giant European editorial company. (Subscription required) Things […]
October 26, 2006
Short Takes
A librarian who stole more than 500 antiquarian books worth ?175,000 from Manchester Central library, and then offered several for sale on an internet auction site, was given a suspended […]
October 25, 2006
Short Takes
George Eliot famously declared that “If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, then it does nothing.” Eliot would be glad to know that she was right. The guitarist from Queen […]
October 25, 2006
Ha Jin: The Writer as Migrant (I)
Tonight Ha Jin delivered the first of three lectures at Rice University in the second annual Campbell Lecture Series. The lectures of each speaker (including last year’s inaugural speaker, Robert […]
October 24, 2006
Short Takes
Worst magazine covers of all time–not exhaustive (via fade theory). In a similar vein, the worst music of all time (similarly not exhaustive). Ralph Steadman’s memoir of Hunter Thompson, The […]
October 24, 2006
An illicit hunger for contemporary literature
We read Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in my high school Utopian Literature course, which was delicious, but I’m even more pleased to hear that books by Ian McEwan, this year’s […]
October 23, 2006
Short Takes
George Berger’s book is an engaging, useful and well-researched if somewhat scrappily finished account of a tumbledown cottage near Epping in Essex, home to scores of adventurers, outsiders, artists, musicians, […]