The Missouri Review

There are only a few months left in the semester, and sadly, (for me, anyway) the blog posts left has chopped down to only a few. I find this time of year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, almost surreal. It seems to me that it is never remembered for long. Characterized by grinding out to finish [...]

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This blog entry by Barrelhouse, made me sad because it is true. The post, which talked about a film and how utterly disappointing the film was, got me thinking about the films I see these days. How very few have anything of a good plot! Under my nostalgia lens I lament, have we forsaken good [...]

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During the ’08 summer, when politics was happening, but I wasn’t really paying attention, I grew enamored with Obama. Not because I was at all informed on his view of political topics, but because I read Obama’s book, “Dreams of my Father”. Politics aside, I loved that book, I found his writing easy and enjoyable, [...]

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So Publisher’s Weekly came out with their 2009 top ten list and at first look I thought the list was interesting. Some I had already wanted to read, and others caught my eye (particularly Stitches by David Small). Then I reached the bottom, and what really caught my eye was the user comments, which made [...]

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Okay, so this post isn’t really about peas, I’ve actually always liked peas. But had I said suddenly I like poems, well, that would have been boring. But before I get to that, I have to say its pretty crazy over here. As we are cracking into these contest submissions, we’ve got another contest that [...]

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I’ve noticed around several literary blogs, and information sources in general, that everyone is talking about  the movie, Where the Wild Things Are. I’ve gotten pretty sick of everyone either talking about how much they liked it, or how much they didn’t, and how much different it is from the children’s book. So instead of [...]

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I’d actually like to follow up on my post last week, “There’s an app for that?”. Another literary group doing something for the ipod is an author named Andrew Foster Altschul. I’m not sure if this is an actual app, or something else, but the brief blog entry at the One Story blog explains Altschul [...]

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I’d like to talk with uneducated speculation about market theory. This is outside my beat, but take a moment to read this Wired article. Yeah, someone is making a literary journal app for the I-phone/I-touch. Will it work? Depends how you put it. Millions of people now own an I-phone/touch. Apps are new, and everyone [...]

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In our first meeting at TMR this semester, Speer Morgan, the editor here, had us read a couple stories. One of them was titled “Careful”, and it was by Ruth Hamel. We do these readings each week and Speer gets us to answer questions- what’s good about this writing and why. With Hamel’s story, which [...]

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Hello to whoever might decide to read this post. Firstly let me bring to attention this: According to The Millions blogger, Sonya Chung, “Actress Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, will be producing a film adaptation of A Moveable Feast, a memoir of Hemingway’s early years as a writer in Paris” Awesome. Hopefully it will [...]

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Hello, my name is Eddie, I’m an intern here at TMR. As being such, one of my duties is to blog about things (I believe that means current literary things), and I am prepared to take full advantage of this opportunity. This week I found an interesting entry linked to Maud Newton’s post titled “writing [...]

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