July 10, 2007
Rereading Harper Lee
When earlier in the summer, Joe Queenan in his article “Summer Bummer” (The New York Times Book Review, June 3, 2007), made certain critical remarks concerning To Kill a Mockingbird, […]
June 21, 2007
Assemblage
This is the second installment in Jonathan Crimmin’s reading of Ondaatje’s Divisadero. Find the first here. —TM On page 23 of Divisadero, Ondaatje describes his character Coop repairing a leak […]
June 8, 2007
Poems & Particulars
This post is the work of Jessica Johnson, who makes her home in Portland, Oregon, and reads poetry for the Burnside Review. –TM I’m mainly a poet, but lately I’ve […]
June 5, 2007
A Peep at Ondaatje
A hearty welcome to Seattle-based writer Jonathan Crimmins, author of this post, who will lead us into temptation–and through his reading of Ondaatje’s recently released Divisadero–in the coming weeks.–TM Let’s […]
June 1, 2007
Early Reading
How formative those early reading experiences are, or can be. Like many of my contemporaries, I had an appreciation of Dr. Suess, though perhaps my favorite children’s book from my […]
May 23, 2007
Telling Stories to Ourselves
We make sense of the world through stories–we need stories in deeper ways than many people realize. I often talk about these things both in my classes and when I’m […]
May 16, 2007
Take Two
Sink or swim? StarTribune.com of Minneapolis reports that BookSwim is just days away from its big dive into e-commerce. The company, founded by twenty-somethings George Burke and Shamoon Siddiqui, has […]
May 14, 2007
Reading Milton
It was during a session of my Major Figures: Milton course this spring that I mentioned the tradition of reading Milton’s Paradise Lost aloud. At least, I’ve heard of it […]
May 3, 2007
New on the KR Site
A few new items of interest on the KR site: Man Martin’s “Dollywood” from the Spring issue. KR fiction editor Nancy Zafris talks to author and poet Rebecca McClanahan. Enjoy!
April 27, 2007
To Google or To Be Googled–A Verb with a Different Meaning than You Might Imagine
[I have bumped David’s entry back to the top due to the interesting conversation happening in the comment section. – jp] For more than a decade I’ve wanted to digitize […]
March 27, 2007
Checking the Mail
What is this ardent interest in the mail? Whether it’s email or post, I have to discipline myself to keep from checking every few minutes. It’s been this way since […]
March 24, 2007
Childhood Fantasies
I’m writing this from Charlottesville, VA, site of the annual Virginia Festival of the Book. What an impressive event! The kind that does give one hope for the future of […]