April 23, 2019
On the Pleasures (and Pitfalls) of Pseudonyms
In August 2009, Joyce Carol Oates gave a talk at Cornell University called “The Writer’s (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration,” in which she discussed her long career, the effects […]
October 15, 2016
Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize [!/?]
Learning of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature this week, I found myself observing, as if from a great distance, the point that the Committee was making (oral and […]
July 4, 2011
KR in the 60’s: “America goes on, goes on”
a whirlwind survey of the Kenyon Review’s final Old Series decade, part of this special summer blog series and a follow-up to these previous surveys of the 40’s AND 50’s! […]