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Spring 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 2 • Introduction |

Editor’s Notes

Every few years, like most publications, The Kenyon Review sends out a readership survey. We are eager to know something about the people who read this journal and, more recently, KROnline as well. After all, if we are to pursue our mission “to keep the flame of literature alive,” as well as to publish the very best literature from around the world, we need to know whom we’re reaching—your ages, your levels of education, those aspects of KR you read and enjoy, and those that aren’t of as much interest.

During the fall of 2010, we circulated such a survey, though this time we did it via our monthly electronic newsletter rather than the U.S. Mail. This not only saved us considerable expense in printing and postage, but it allowed us to reach the widest possible KR community of readers, writers, program participants, instructors, and friends. The response was gratifyingly swift and broad—and often fascinating.

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David H. Lynn is the editor emeritus of The Kenyon Review, a professor of English, and special assistant to the president of the college. He was the editor of the Review from 1994 to 2020. As an author, he received a 2016 O. Henry Award for "Divergence." His latest collection, Children of God: New & Selected Stories, was published in 2019 by Braddock Avenue Books.

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Beginning in this issue of KR you will find the first installment of “Just Not for Us,” a new series of essays by Roger Rosenblatt. For those of you blessed […]

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