The Virginia Quarterly Review has made all of its content from 1975-2003 available online at no cost; enjoy browsing the back issues, search for specific pieces, and check out these choice recommendations listed on the VQR blog.
M. S. Corley redesigns the whole Harry Potter series as Penguin classics. Here’s a preview: Thanks, Tori, for the link!
“Books were once subversive things, causing revolutions, and stimulating unimagined sexual awakenings…These days, opening a book – any book – is seen as nothing more than part of good citizenship, and something that might just help you on the path to prosperity to boot.” Alastair Harper gets satirical on the Guardian Books Blog, raising questions about indiscriminate reading and experiments like OUP’s Project X: There is a presumption that if the worst, most delinquent tearaways would just put down their machetes for a moment and sit down to read a good book, they would instantly see the merit in a […]
Anne Stameshkin, Greg Schutz, Celeste Ng, Natalie Bakopoulos, and Jeremiah Chamberlin lead a series of discussions on critic James Wood’s latest collection of essays, How Fiction Works.
If you’ll be at AWP in Chicago this Thursday-Saturday, do stop by the University of Michigan table, where FWR will be representing with giveaway magnets and bookmarks; we’re hoping to spread the word about our site, grow our community of writers and readers, connect with publishers, and learn about new and forthcoming books. Sadly I won’t be at AWP myself (this wretched pneumonia forced me to cancel my flight today), but a number of FWR contributors will be in attendance, among them Associate Editor Jeremiah Chamberlin, who has generously offered to coordinate FWR efforts at the conference. If you’re longing […]
Apologies for these very short blog entries, FWR readers. I have a bad bout of pneumonia and my drugged brain is not operating on all cylinders. So please, go yonder and read this wonderful review on The Practicing Writer of How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work (edited by Piero Brunello and Lena Lencek, translated from the Russian and Italian by Lena Lencek; published Nov. 2008 by Da Capo Press).
Amazon’s brand new Kindle 2 is here, and Brad Stone says it’s “lighter, brighter, and chattier.” I admit it…I want one, and at the same time, I feel guilty for wanting one. It’s hard not to be sucked in by hyperbolic exclamations that this e-book reader is either the savior of publishing or the harbinger of its death. What do you think — is it harmful, helpful, or totally innocuous/inconsequential to purchase one? If you have a Kindle 1.0, how do you like it, and are you considering an upgrade? Here’s Stephen King at today’s launch; King scored a free […]
William Trevor is a God anyone can believe in–ever-loving and omniscient, but not omnipotent. Even as he reveals lives destroyed or halted, one is calmed by his authority, safe in his hands. It’s true; there is nothing he can do to save his characters from themselves. But in his latest collection, Trevor does not just bear silent witness: unlike most contemporary short-story writers, he spells out his stories’ moral lessons, traces them to their furthest conclusions, and even ties up loose ends.
Yay FWR! We’re one of ten sites listed here under the “Fiction Writing” subhead on this list by Best Colleges Online. Check out the list , which features a host of great writing-themed blogs and websites.
