We've just been informed that VQR has won FOLIO: magazine's Gold Eddie Award for editorial excellence in the nonprofit category. We're delighted by this news—and not a little humbled. The other finalist were two exceptional magazines: OnEarth (winn [...]
Has anyone out there seen the limited release of Running with Scissors? Back in February 2005, we received a request from a production assistant working on the film adaptation of Augusten Burroughs's memoir for a few sheets of old VQR letterhead. See [...]
Things have been abuzz here at VQR for the past couple of days since word got out that we're publishing "War Thoughts at Home," a previously unknown Robert Frost poem. We've published a dozen previously unknown Frost poems over the years, but that wa [...]
The release of the remade movie of "All The King's Men" this weekend makes it useful to note the pair of lengthy essays that we've published recently about Robert Penn Warren and his seminal novel. (“Recently" being a relative term for an eighty-ye [...]
Alan Heathcock was interviewed on an Idaho NPR radio show, "New Horizons in Education." A good part of the interview is spent discussing "Peacekeeper"—which originally appeared in VQR and has since won the National Magazine Award for Fiction and be [...]
Kevin Holtsberry, author of the Collected Miscellany blog, has a podcast interview with Brock Clarke, largely centered on Clarke's essay "The Novel is Dead, Long Live the Novel," from the Summer issue of VQR. [...]
In anticipation of Brian De Palma's film version of The Black Dahlia opening on September 15, we're pleased to make available an essay by Ellroy originally published in our Summer issue (and now published as the afterword to the movie tie-in edition [...]
At Inside Higher Ed, Scott McLemee offers praise for Divided Mind, a new collection of work by the essayist and critic George Scialabba:
[I]t is about time someone brought out a collection of Scialabba’s work. That it’s only happening now (15 [...]
Richmond's Style Weekly has a very nice profile of VQR and me in their new issue. Amy Biegelsen is kind to me, mostly—though she couldn't resist making fun of my wearing socks and sandals. Luckily, Michael Schaub over at Bookslut notes that, despit [...]
Ernie Schenck interviews James Othmer about his new novel The Futurist and his time in the advertising industry, at Schenck's blog "Ernie Schenck Calls This Advertising?".
Q: I’m Malcolm Gladwell. I’ve just read The Futurist. Should I be offen [...]
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