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VQR Wins Phoenix Award From CELJ

By The Editors

February 21, 2006

The Virginia Quarterly Review has been honored as the winner of the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, presented by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), the major international organization supporting editors of academ [...]

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Faulkner Letter Sells for $18,000

By Ted Genoways

February 21, 2006

According to the Washington Post, a letter by William Faulkner complaining that he had been “conned” into a screenwriting contract with Warner Brothers sold yesterday for nearly $18,000, according to auction house Bonhams & Butterfields. Faul [...]

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Greg Orr on the Making of Poems

By Kevin Morrissey

February 20, 2006

Greg Orr, professor of Creative Writing at UVa, read on orginal essay, "On the Making of Poems" this afternoon on "This I Believe," a regular segment on NPR's "All Things Considered." The "This I Believe" project invites Americans from all walks of l [...]

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Tom Bissell on Truth in Travel Literature

By Kevin Morrissey

February 16, 2006

Tom Bissell, a contributing editor to VQR, weighs in on the "truth & nonfiction" debate in a great essay looking at truth in travel literature posted at World Hum. The great nonfiction writer Lawrence Weschler once said to me that there are tw [...]

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Book Review: Teacher Man

February 15, 2006

Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt. Scribner, November 2005. $26 Ah, the mystery of teaching. Or, rather, the mystery of why any college graduate would want to join this underpaid, overworked, and under appreciated profession in today's United States. Th [...]

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Book Review: Equiano the African

February 15, 2006

Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, by Vincent Carretta. Georgia, October 2005. $29.95 Archives hold their surprises. The one Vincent Carretta chanced upon, among British baptismal and naval records, has led to considerable fame for t [...]

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Rethinking the Gun Control Debate

By Kevin Morrissey

February 14, 2006

John Casteen IV, a contributor to VQR ("Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control"), has another essay on the subject at Slate.com. "The Accidental Shootist" steers a middle ground between both sides of the debate and is worth reading. [O]ur national dis [...]

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Alan Heathcock’s story “Peacekeeper” honored

By Kevin Morrissey

February 14, 2006

Congratulations go out to VQR contributor Alan Heathcock—his story “Peacekeeper,” which VQR published in our Fall 2005 issue, has been chosen for inclusion in the 2006 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories by series editor Otto Penzler a [...]

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Lost Larkin Tapes

By Ted Genoways

February 14, 2006

The London Telegraph reports that a collection of lost recordings of Philip Larkin have been found in the attic of a former BBC sound engineer—who recorded the British poet in his garage studio. The engineer’s son jokes with the Yorkshire Post To [...]

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