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Interview with Kenyon Review Editor

By Kevin Morrissey

April 13, 2006

I found it a over month late, but here's a nice interview with David Lynn, editor of the Kenyon Review, by John Sledge, the Books columnist of the Mobile (AL) Register. (Brief registration may be required.) Sledge offers that he plans to interview Br [...]

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Copper Canyon Press profiled

By Kevin Morrissey

March 31, 2006

One of the best poetry presses around, Copper Canyon Press has been a roll of late with literary prizes: Ted Kooser's Delights and Shadows winning the Pulitzer and W.S. Merwin's Migration: New and Selected Poems nabbing the National Book Award. John [...]

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NY Press on the Most Loathsome New Yorkers

By Kevin Morrissey

March 30, 2006

The New York Press has released their annual "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" and two writers made the list: James Frey (no surprise) comes in at #6 and Jonathan Safran Foer at #28: This very paper dubbed him [Safran Foer] not just a bad author, bu [...]

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We’re Big in Australia

By Ted Genoways

March 29, 2006

As part of the ongoing long, strange trip of being nominated for a half dozen Ellies, I was interviewed today for "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Koval says: Few things spark the public imagination lik [...]

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Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog

By Kevin Morrissey

March 21, 2006

Via BoingBoing, humorous blog maintained by Chaucer, who answers readers' questions. My dog is a retriever, but he won't chase a ball. Every time I throw a toy across the room, he climbs in my lap and licks my face. I know he needs exercise—what [...]

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Interview with Bret Lott, editor of the Southern Review

By Kevin Morrissey

March 20, 2006

Via Bookslut, the Mobile Register interviews Bret Lott, editor of the Southern Review. Q: Who are some of the contemporary Southern writers that you are excited about? A: There's a young poet named Beth Bachmann who teaches up at Vanderbilt ab [...]

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Some Fireside Reading

By Ted Genoways

March 18, 2006

So it’s been a pretty good week for all of us at VQR. As if six National Magazine Award nominations weren’t enough (and believe me, they were), we got word that Tom Bissell’s and Morgan Meis’s travel piece “After the Fall” (from the Fall [...]

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Book Review: Toward a new sub-genre?

By David Lee Rubin

March 18, 2006

Cultural (dis)Connections: Memoirs of a Surrealist Scholar, by Renée [Riese] Hubert. Black Apollo Press. March 2006. $21. Renée Hubert's friend and colleague Marjorie Perloff seems to have started it all: her Vienna Paradox (New Directions, 2004) [...]

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VQR: “Best F**king Magazine on the Planet”

By Ted Genoways

March 16, 2006

In the wake of the National Magazine Award announcement, much of the media has reacted with no small amount of puzzlement over our wealth of nominations. The New York Post hailed our six nods as “the biggest surprise of the day,” Women’s Wear D [...]

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