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VQR Takes to Styling

May 2, 2004

  By JEROME WEEKS / The Dallas Morning News They used to look as alike as close family members, and some still do, those literary quarterlies and high-brow journals: The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The New Criterion, Partisan Review and S [...]

Harold Bloom Can’t Forget VQR

April 25, 2004

In a Newsday profile of Harold Bloom, James Marcus discusses Bloom's controversial new anthology, The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost, which Cary Nelson reviewed critically in our Spring 2004 issue. Marcus notes that Bl [...]

VQR Turns 80: New Look, Old Debate

December 18, 2003

From The Hook By ELIZABETH KIEM words@readthehook.com The winter 2004 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review is a felicitous blend of respect and revolution. A glance at the glossy color makeover attests to editor Ted Genoways' eagerness to change t [...]

Editor of VQR Plans Journal’s Bold Future

December 14, 2003

When Ted Genoways was accepted to the University of Virginia’s master’s of fine arts program in creative writing in the summer of 1997, he immediately contacted the Virginia Quarterly Review, UVa’s prestigious literary journal, looking for an e [...]

Staige D. Blackford Remembered for Eventful Life

July 1, 2003

By Matt Kelly, UVa News Staige D. Blackford, retiring editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, died Monday of injuries sustained in an automobile collision at the intersection of Emmet Street and Arlington Boulevard in Charlottesville. A Charlottes [...]

Ted Genoways Named New Editor of VQR

June 10, 2003

Ted Genoways has been named the eighth editor in the 78-year history of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Genoways, who received a master of fine arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1999, is currently associate editor of the Walt Whitman Hyp [...]

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