>The New Yorker: "Leaving for Kenosha" by Richard Ford

>In Post-Katrina New Orleans, life is a mess for everyone. Walter Hobbes gets just one day a week with his daughter Louise since his…

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>While we’re on the subject of conferences, we’ve also got the Virginia Festival of the Book coming, March 26-30, which means the next month…

>2nd Annual Conversations and Connections

>And speaking of conferences, here’s Conversations and Connections: Pracitcal Advice on Getting Published. This is a chance to sit down with magazine editors and…

>Split This Rock

>The amazing Split this Rock Poetry Festival is fast approaching (it’s in Washington DC, March 20-23). It is a stunning line-up of panels and…

>ASC: Cymbeline

>What a fun hodge-podge Cymbeline is! I’m reasonably sure this production at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse is the first I’ve seen, but…