… the colors of your dresses turned against you. The gold key committee in your home town kept changing the rules. …
VQR congratulates the 2023 Winners The Emily Clark Balch Prizes and the Staige D. Blackford Prize were created to honor the best writing to appear in the pages of VQR each year. Past recipients include John Berryman, Philip Caputo, Pauline W. Chen, …
… for their momentary popularity. Such fleeting praise, coming from the thin minds of those who read only to be in … and the prevalence of a group of pale “intellectuals” who devour pages without a taste for them—I can … drab realities of average living until it has lost its audience through its own dullness. A tale which used to open …
Contributor
… Bomb Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and Five Points . Celia Bell …
… announcement. One can understand this unprepar-edness. The common ground upon which reactionary cap-|italists and revolutionary radicals have been able to stand has been their complete … profits of industry are levied upon to pay for export subsidies. The rate of return is limited to a minimum, and all …
Essays
… I have changed most names and identifying details. I have also, at times, combined certain characters to allow for narrative sense. I … genre fiction but genre memoir in which drug addicts die and in certain ways. Though the real Lilly supposedly …