VQR Wins a National Magazine Award
We took home one of the 25 awards handed out at the 2008 National Magazine Awards, receiving the Single-Topic Issue award for our Fall 2007 South America issue. The prize is a testament to the brilliant work done by the seventeen writers, photographers, and artists whose work comprised the issue. It’s all available online for free, with an additional eight articles found only on our website.
EssayThe Christian with Four AcesBill Sizemore
I spoiled Pat Robertson’s birthday. I know, because he told me so. “You guys are as crooked as a snake,” he sputtered. “I’ll have you all in depositions for the rest of your life.” “God says, ‘Confess your sins,’” he told me, and as I shook his hand on the way out, added: “I’m going to pray for you.” PoetryJamie's HairMichael BishopHe scooped it with deft, long-fingered hands and tamed it / The StormCharles SimicI’m going over to see what those weeds / The Great American PoemBilly CollinsIf this were a novel, / Humor‘Dead-Eye’ ComicsRoss MacDonald
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FictionMy Interview with the AvengerTom Bissell
This is a story about heroes. Yes, it is also a profile of a famous man, a
“celebrity,” I suppose, but it is first and foremost a story about
heroes, what they mean, and the draperies of significance with which we decorate
them. The hero in question came to us as unexpectedly as a micrometeorite, and
little has been the same since his impact. The 13th EggScott Snyder
The pond water boiled for three full days. When the water finally cooled,
bystanders remarked on the clusters of odd-looking rocks on the pond’s
bottom. Upon closer examination, the rocks were found to be turtle shells,
boiled clean. VQR RediscoveryEzra Pound: Foreign CorrespondentJon SchneiderOn July 14, 1959, the Richmond News Leader ran an editorial by Ezra Pound entitled “Keynes Brainwashed Electorate with Economic Hogwash.” It was his first and last publication in the Virginia newspaper—despite a yearlong stint as its foreign correspondent in Europe. Plus...Lawrence Weschler on Robert Irwin, Chris Ware continues his “Jordan Lint” series, Glen Retief recalls his childhood, poetry from Charles Wright, criticism from William Logan, and much, much more. |
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