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2006 Writing Awards

By The Editors

January 16, 2007

Honoring the best writing to appear in its pages in the past year, the Virginia Quarterly Review today announced the winners of its annual writing prizes for 2006: The Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry: Susan B. A. Somers-Willett for "Darwin Strike [...]

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John Ghazvinian Interviewed

By Kevin Morrissey

January 12, 2007

John Ghazvinian, author of "The Curse of Oil" in the new issue of VQR, will be interviewed today at 5:00 p.m. by Coy Barefoot on Charlottesville radio station WINA. A podcast of the interview should be available early next week and we'll supply a lin [...]

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Pauline Chen reviewed in NYT

By Ted Genoways

January 11, 2007

Williams Grimes reviews Pauline Chen's book Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality (Knopf) in today's New York Times. Grimes praises the work as a series of thoughtful, moving essays on the troubled relationship between modern medical [...]

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Saddam Is Dead

By Ted Genoways

December 30, 2006

Saddam Hussein has been executed in Baghdad. In the coming days, we can all expect renewed debate about whether deposing and executing Hussein has been worth the human and political toll. (I think our stance is clear.) As a background for this discus [...]

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Oil in Africa / VQR’s Winter issue

By Kevin Morrissey

December 26, 2006

CNN reports that over 200 people were killed on Monday outside Lagos, Nigeria from a massive explosion and fire resulting from a tapped oil pipeline. Despite Nigeria's oil riches, much of the population suffers from fuel shortages and illegal tapping [...]

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Bookslut Judges ‘Em By Their Covers

By Waldo Jaquith

December 8, 2006

Bookslut clearly isn't a fan of the crop of cover art this past year. Heather Smith manages to get past her distaste and find six that rank at the top. They are nice covers, but, speaking only for myself, "Mountain Man Dance Moves" is fairly ungood l [...]

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The First Issue: Spring 1925

By Waldo Jaquith

November 27, 2006

There are two complete sets of VQR. One is in the hands of the U.Va. library. The other is in the office of our editor, Ted Genoways, across the street from the library. I've witnessed the publication's transformation over the past fifteen years, hav [...]

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Ware & Satrapi on Wisconsin Public Radio

By Waldo Jaquith

November 26, 2006

Comic book artists and VQR contributors Chris Ware and Marjane Satrapi were featured on Wisconsin Public Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" today. The two were interviewed by Jim Fleming for the Wisconsin Book Festival last month, and it's that o [...]

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Fall Issue Sold Out

By Waldo Jaquith

October 25, 2006

As a result of the enormous demand for our Fall 2006 issue, we regret that we've completely sold out of copies. If you can't pick up a copy in your local bookstore, which may still have a few in stock, you can always subscribe to VQR. That won't get [...]

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Frost, Maxwell Podcasts

By Waldo Jaquith

October 23, 2006

We hosted a couple of events on Friday that we recorded for your listening pleasure. First we held a series of lectures on the newly-discovered Robert Frost poem, featuring our own Ted Genoways, New Republic poetry editor Glyn Maxwell, and graduate s [...]

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