Month: March 2008

March 26, 2008

>New Issue: 34th Parallel

>The new magazine 34th Parallel has arrived. Be sure to take a look.
March 25, 2008

>The Virginia Festival of the Book

>The Virginia Festival of the Book is here. Or it will be tomorrow. I need to review the schedule again!
March 25, 2008

>Young Lions

>The NY Public Library has named the finalists for their Young Lions Fiction Award to a writer 35 or under: Ron Currie, Jr., God…
March 24, 2008

>The Complete Works

>What a deal! I go to every show that the American Shakespeare Center produces, some more than once. That’s an average of more than…
March 23, 2008

>LitMag Swap #2

>This worked out well last week, so let me try again. This time I’m offering a shiny new copy of Mid-American Review, Volume XXVII,…
March 23, 2008

>Grace Paley: Fidelity

> I would love this book even if the pages were blank if I thought that’s what Grace Paley wanted us to contemplate. Even…
March 22, 2008

>ASC: The Jew of Malta

>It’s amazing how many people are willing to spend a couple of hours at the theater on a sunny Saturday afternoon, including me. All…
March 22, 2008

>Anniversary, of sorts; Early Easter

>Easter is incredibly early this year. In fact, the last time it was this early was in 1913. Easter occurs on the first Sunday…
March 21, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Region of Unlikeness" by Rivka Galchen

>This story, if indeed it is a story and not an excerpt from the author’s forthcoming novel Atmospheric Disturbances, begins slowly, picks up speed…
March 21, 2008

>Good News for Poets

>There aren’t that many places where collections of poetry are reviewed, but I’ve just noticed that Phoebe Magazine’s blog has been running poetry reviews….