July 13, 2007
Roger Rosenblatt’s “Just Not For Us” Now Online
In Roger Rosenblatt’s “Just Not For Us” from the Summer issue of KR, Mr. Rosenblatt imagines a conversation in a modern “Advanced Journalism” class. Click here to read more.
July 13, 2007
KR Writers Workshop, Pt. 2
The second installment in this series by Kirsten Ogden. Part Two: In which the blogger takes a little detour form the specifics of Rosanna Warren’s class and talks a bit […]
July 12, 2007
Thoughts on the KR Writers Workshop
A series of blogposts by the writer Kirsten Ogden on her experience this year in the KR Writers Workshops, June 16th-23rd. Part One: In which the blogger expounds on the […]
July 12, 2007
Bookstores and Baudrillard
Lee Rourke did a nice job of stirring up the literati in yesterday’s Guardian with his description of Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris as an ideal example of Jean […]
July 11, 2007
Take Two
“I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it.”–from Sharon Olds’ 2005 poetic open letter […]
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, […]
July 9, 2007
The Death of the Novel (again)
John Freeman, President of the National Book Critics Circle, meditated on the question “Has the novel been murdered by the mob” in last Thursday’s Guardian. The mob he had in […]
July 8, 2007
Rare Books
Anyone can appreciate the desire to hold in the hands a book that was written, printed, and read hundreds of years ago. Maybe one’s own absence from the age of […]
July 7, 2007
Poetry and Daily Life
Every 4th of July in Gambier, Ohio–at least those that I have been a part of–the mayor (currently Kirk Emmert) usually makes a speech accompanying a festive parade, which typically […]
July 5, 2007
Death Is Stranger Than Fiction
If you haven’t seen it already, let me urge you to check out this wonderful obituary that appeared in yesterday’s Telegraph. One only needs to read the first sentence to […]
July 5, 2007
On Literature and Politics, Part II
My wife recently forwarded to me an entry from a literary blog on the subject of the CIA’s role in promoting American literary values abroad during the Cold War and […]
July 3, 2007
Young Writers, Part Three
Onward and onward. We are in the run of student readings now–the first was last night–with three more on the way. These are often the shining moments of the workshop. […]