The Virginia Quarterly Review launched their redesigned website this week, and it’s a sight to behold. To celebrate the occasion, the magazine has dropped its paywall through Valentine’s Day, so start exploring. I recommend starting with Kevin Young’s recent poem, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” which he composed entirely out of song lyrics.
VQR Debuts Redesigned Website, Lifts Paywall
“We’re Lucky to Be Writers. Nobody Owes Us Anything.”
"Why I Write" by Stephen Elliott.
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If I Were President
What would Geoffrey Canada, Neil deGrasse Tyson, or Jennifer Egan do in America's highest office?
Serial Vonnegut
Amazon is putting out seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut as a serial ebook called Sucker's Portfolio.
An Issue of Perspective
Sure, male journalists are generally not the best when it comes to writing about women, but things have gotten better in the last few years, right? Maybe not.
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Tintin Ruling
Good news for Tintinologists, if not guards of political correctness: Tintin in the Congo has been deemed "not racist" by a Belgian judicial adviser.
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Listening to Poems
At The Rumpus, Darcie Dennigan pens a strange and beautiful review of G.C. Waldrep's new collection of poetry, Archicembalo: "I dreamt that G.C. Waldrep was offering me a tumbler of Pepsi, and amid the soda bubbles were many pills."
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