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David J. Morris on the Surge in Iraq

April 16, 2007

David J. Morris, author of "The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground" (in our Winter 2007 issue), was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a story on the new US strategy in Iraq (he's at the 10 minute mark). Morris also [...]

VQR on NPR

April 7, 2007

NPR's "On the Media," produced by WNYC and hosted by Brooke Gladstone, features an outstanding segment on Mark Twain's unpublished faux letter to the editor "The Walt Whitman Controversy," available for the first time in our new Spring 2007 issue. Gl [...]

Pauline Chen reads at the VA Festival of the Book

March 23, 2007

We were pleased to host Pauline Chen, one of our favorite VQR contributors, yesterday for her reading as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book. Pauline read to a packed audience at the UVA Bookstore and we hope to have a podcast of her reading up [...]

VQR Nominated for Two National Magazine Awards

March 14, 2007

We just heard that we've been named a finalist for two National Magazine Awards: for General Excellence (for circulation less than 100,000) and for Fiction. We were one of 27 magazines that received multiple nominations and we were nominated in the t [...]

Lawrence Weschler Wins NBCC Award

March 9, 2007

The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2006 awards last night in NYC. Among the winners was VQR contributor and art consultant (he prefers "art wrangler") Lawrence Weschler for his book Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSween [...]

Podcast of David Morris Interview

February 12, 2007

David Morris, author of "The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground" in the Winter issue of VQR, is interviewed at Charlottesville's WINA Radio. Interview is available as streaming media or a downloadable podcast. [...]

Wolcott Smacks Down Adam Gopnik

February 8, 2007

With due respect to Heidi Julavits and The Believer's credo of no snarkiness, one can still profess enjoyment for the act when done well; i.e., James Wolcott's thoroughly entertaining evisceration of Adam Gopnik's new book Through the Children's Gate [...]

Book Review: Potscrubber Lullabies

February 5, 2007

Potscrubber Lullabies, by Eric McHenry. Waywiser Press, June 2006. $14 paper Ambrose Bierce drew national boundaries between humor and wit: “Nearly all Americans are humorous; if any are born witty, Heaven help them to emigrate.” British publish [...]

Pauline Chen on “Weekend Edition”

January 27, 2007

This morning, Saturday, January 27, our own Pauline Chen will be interviewed by Scott Simon on NPR's "Weekend Edition." And if you're in the Charlottesville area, now would be a good time to mark your calendars for Thursday, March 22, at 2 PM. Paulin [...]

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