October 26, 2007
On Lady Look
This musing is the work of Susan Parr–learn more about her work on the author’s page. –TM Theories–and other thick things–can be pleasures in themselves. But they are often too […]
October 25, 2007
On Reviewing and the Critical Mode
Happily spelunking around the internet yesterday, I came across John Updike’s guidelines for writing book reviews, from the introduction to Picked Up Pieces. My favorite, and perhaps most controversial, is […]
October 23, 2007
Poetry with the Stars
A few weeks ago, I saw that Ani Difranco will be releasing a book of poetry. She’s not the first to offer song lyrics to the literati–there’s a litany of […]
October 22, 2007
The New Patronage
Tyler’s recent link to the news story about free downloads of the novels shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize caught my attention as another twist on the question of […]
October 21, 2007
Sunday Funnies: Coffee or Tea?
After alcohol, coffee and tea seem to be the dueling elixers of choice for writers. (There is the possibility of mixing coffee or tea with alcohol, but that’s another blog). […]
October 19, 2007
Short Takes
Some Nabokovian marginalia. Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows. Remarkable in this: they’ve split from all record companies, and are providing the album online exclusively, for a donation. For no money, […]
October 18, 2007
On Important Books
This post is authored by Dan Poppick, recent Kenyon Review Associate.–TM Cormac McCarthy did not win the Nobel Prize in literature last week as some of us had hoped, and […]
October 17, 2007
How it Happens: Meeting Alice Oswald
Somehow, I’d been at my perch at the University of Cambridge for a month before I realized what a different range of texts and ideas this year would introduce to […]
October 16, 2007
Writing About War
Perhaps the biggest departure in Time and Materials from Robert Hass’ earlier work is his choice to speak topically on major contemporary American (and world) political issues–from war, to climate […]
October 15, 2007
Time and Materials
Robert Hass’ new book Time and Materials is his first in 10 years. There’s much to like in this book, and there is much quintessential Hass here. The landscape is […]
October 14, 2007
Sunday Funnies–Ubuweb Pt.3
There is something to this “having it in my hands” thing. Yes, the world wide web is fantastic, but when you’re holding something in your hands, it does somehow seem […]
October 13, 2007
On Cost and Value
I had an interesting conversation with some of the Kenyon Review Student Associates the other day on the unliterary sounding topic of the relationship between cost and value. Here’s the […]