December 3, 2007
Martin Amis: The Most Hated Man in Britain?
This post is the work of Rob Kunzig, an English major at Kenyon College. He also blogs here.–TM Despite almost a year of good behavior, controversy has found Martin Amis […]
December 2, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Cartoon Heaven
In spirit of true ‘sunday funnies,’ I offer a few, inspired cartoons and animated funstuffs about writing, writers, and the literati.
November 30, 2007
Copyright, Copywrong.
Yesterday morning I had the good fortune of sitting in on a lecture from Lewis Hyde, Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College, titled “Fair Use vs. The Copyright […]
November 28, 2007
Short Takes
Another take on Margaret Atwood’s visit to Gambier for the Kenyon Review Literary Festival–pretend you were here… Cast your vote for the best book cover of 2007–from witty to beautiful […]
November 27, 2007
Natalie Angier Dances The Hora
Natalie Angier is a writer who can get me interested in just about any subject, but today’s article in the Science Times section of the New York Times was easy. […]
November 27, 2007
Pushcart Poets from the Kenyon Review
Happily we announce that Linda Gregerson’s poem “Bicameral” and Meghan O’Rourke’s poem “War Lullaby” were selected for Pushcart Prizes. They appear in 2008 Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best Of The Small […]
November 26, 2007
Everyone’s A Critic
Americans may be reading less, but you’d never know it by browsing through the reviews on Amazon.com. There’s been a lot of justified hand-wringing recently in the literary community about […]
November 25, 2007
Reading Between the Lines
The NEA released a follow-up missive to the controversial 2004 report “Reading at Risk” last week, cleverly titled “To Read or Not to Read” (.pdf available here.) It would take […]
November 22, 2007
On Hecht’s Darkness and Light
The final poem of Anthony Hecht’s final book of poems, The Darkness and the Light (2001) takes its title from Psalm 139: “The Darkness and the Light are Both Alike […]
November 22, 2007
Short Thanks
In the poem “The Pumpkin” by 19th century poet John Greenleaf Whittier, the tradition of Thanksgiving is described as a time of remembrance and return, a celebration of abundance, both […]
November 22, 2007
We’ve been anxious over this since the blog began.
It’s one of our favorite things to worry about, isn’t it? The expiration of The Book as we know it? Well, check out what Amazon’s advertising on its homepage: The […]
November 21, 2007
Book Club Check In: Mailer’s “The Castle in the Forest”
Hello readers! I just KNOW that those hours on the airplane, or in the car, or waiting for the turkey when you’re not a football fan can be spent exploring […]