September 6, 2006
Any Resemblance to Any Persons, Living Or Dead
…not quite purely coincindental in the case of “Happyland” (panned by Conversational Reading), a serialized novel appearing in Harper’s. Even the name of the main character, Happy Masters, is strikingly […]
September 5, 2006
For Those of You Who Haven’t Seen It Already…
Booksquare has a great series of articles on how to build your own writerly website. Worth reading even if you have a site already. All I have to add to […]
September 4, 2006
Germany Likes To Stomp on Its Grass
…but The Guardian thinks the memoir, Skinning the Onion, isn’t half-bad: Despite the controversy caused by the early chapters, the book actually becomes more interesting as the story progresses. The […]
September 2, 2006
KR Interview With Editor and Poet Meghan O’Rourke
Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, we’ve been able to start a series of interviews with authors appearing in current issues of The Kenyon Review. […]
September 1, 2006
Too Bad The New Yorker Doesn’t Have a Zero-Tolerance Policy for Sloppy Logic
In this New Yorker tidbit, Malcolm Gladwell makes a number of mistakes–since he’s talking about education, let me recommend to him a rudimentary logic class. Once he’s taken it, he […]
September 1, 2006
Short Takes
As Liz mentioned, the number of banned books has declined this year. However, books about homosexuals – including Butler, Garcia Marquez, and Kenyon’s own Doctorow – are still considered profane. […]
September 1, 2006
Reading Period Begins Today
Please, please, please read our info for writers before you send anything in, especially the submission guidelines. And, in the “old news” department, some notes from the slush pile.
August 31, 2006
Short Takes
Rejection, a writer’s constant companion. The American Conservative wonders what left and right mean these days. And if it matters. Some of the articles are quite good, some of the […]
August 30, 2006
Short Takes
Michael Shermer says science is a verb; Language Log disagrees: “this is not just sick but dead on arrival.” Verbing weirds langage, as Conversational Reading notes (referencing a little comic […]
August 29, 2006
Today is John Locke’s Birthday
I think it’s time we had a little chat about free speech, Stanley Fish notwithstanding. It is to John Locke we Americans owe our Declaration of Independence (if Thomas Jefferson […]
August 29, 2006
Short Takes
The Ottawa Citizen enumerates lessons learned from Steinbeck. In other news, Hemingway is chick-lit (which means that “the novel seems to be reverting to its origins as a feminine hobby, […]
August 28, 2006
Short Takes
Critical Mass is feeling sassy: Margaret Atwood has written an open letter to America. The question we’d like to know is was it that robotic hand which signed it? The […]