November 6, 2007
It’s So Personal! (But You Can’t Touch Them)
Thanks to my new read, Pinky over at pinkyspaperhaus, for this one: Margaret Atwood, recipient of this year’s Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, has come up with a way […]
November 6, 2007
The Kitsch Conundrum
Here’s the link to a great post by Matt Pearce, over at the Missouri Review Blog. He takes on the recent criticism of “kitsch culture”–and suggests what feels like the […]
November 5, 2007
Celebrating Poets
A free download of a poem each by 13 of the current Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Broadsides for everyone! (sort of.) Tiny Shakespeares. A Coda for you.
November 4, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Celebrating pets
Friends, it’s a sad Sunday for me; I’ve just learned that my beloved cat Sadie is terminally ill. This got me to counting dead pets; morbid, but true. The latest […]
November 3, 2007
Digitization, Reading, Writing, Publishing
It seems a lucky thing that I returned to graduate school in the fall of 1995. A year or two earlier, the librarian at the secondary school where I was […]
November 2, 2007
Digitization and Digits–What Will You Hold When All The Books Are In Your Computer?
Just a link today, to a recent New Yorker article on making books into digital things–a technology in middling infancy, for sure, but what great potential in the genes! (Or […]
November 1, 2007
On Reviewing and the Critical Mode
Auden, stalwart of principled taste and refined pleasures, left a gem of an essay on reading, and by extension reviewing, in the prologue of his book The Dyer’s Hand. Called […]
October 31, 2007
Short Takes
Video book reviews! Okay, maybe I’m dating myself, but video book reviews remind me a lot of Reading Rainbows. But you don’t have to take my word for it. On […]
October 30, 2007
To Be and To Become
This post is the work of Jonathan Crimmins–TM There’s a neighborhood in Seattle called Fremont that used to be an aging hippie enclave, complete with a statue of Lenin. After […]
October 29, 2007
New Foundations
Students in the first year of the KR’s new Writing and Thinking at Kenyon pre-orientation program at Kenyon College submitted pieces they’d written during the program in August for burial […]
October 28, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Rick Moody on UbuWeb
One of the nice things about Ubuweb is that it’s always adding something new. For example, several contemporary writers who believe in Ubuweb’s mission are adding themselves to the roster, […]
October 27, 2007
“Dealing With a Classic of Irresponsible Gibberish,” or What Do We Do With Hunter S. Thompson?
This piece is the work of author W. David Hall–TM Because we Americans love to pinpoint the exact day, hour, and minute that we become awash in the wake of […]