June 1, 2007
You’re Talking to a Doctor of Journalism!
Ladies and gents, today marks my last day as the blog editor. I’m passing the torch to one Tyler Meier, so that I can have some “me time” when I […]
May 31, 2007
Be Mean and Mean It
We all can sympathize with a sentimental (read: sincere) gesture–but such earnest gestures often account for terrible writing. It isn’t hard to imagine a writer’s attempts to get a particularly […]
May 31, 2007
8th Annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend
June 9-10 New York City Come for the readings, stay for the deals, and chat with editors, publishers and writers from across the country during this year’s Lit Mag Marathon […]
May 30, 2007
Short Takes
“That is a lot of Waughs. It should be noted that, except for the current biographer, all of them are dead, but one’s disappointment has to be muted, because meeting […]
May 29, 2007
Take Two
How to Raise Your IQ Fifty Points. Fellow Ohioan Bill Eichenberger has joined the blogosphere with The Book Blog. A book critic for the Columbus Dispatch, Eichenberger says that he […]
May 26, 2007
Take Two
Be careful what you wish for. I’m talking to you, Liz Lopatto and Galleycat Ron Hogan. According to Hogan, the two were out drinking scotch recently and came up with […]
May 25, 2007
Short Takes
“My reading is bitchy. I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.” Cheeseburgers in paradise (or Des Plaines). Who […]
May 24, 2007
Take Two
The elephant in the room. While book lovers are doing the worthy work of trying to save the book review, it occurs to me that now might also be a […]
May 24, 2007
More on Steiner’s “New Literacy”
Since my friend Meg Galipault responded to my earlier blog on Steiner’s “New Literacy” essay (December 19th, 2006) with the question “are the humanities so isolated from the sciences that […]
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 23, 2007
Short Takes
Writer films are so hot right now. Wilco: clearly not The Eagles (via Syntax of Things). Proof here. “Up above the New York skyline, she saw a man dangling from […]
May 22, 2007
Take Two: The British Edition
A tidy, stiff upper lip. Two books celebrating quintessentially British qualities are receiving rave reviews across the pond. In the Guardian, Claire Armitstead explains why David Kynaston’s Austerity Britain, “a […]