The Missouri Review

Saw Georgeanne Nixon and Governor Nixon at the movies yesterday. Georgeanne is a serious and involved supporter of the arts. Didn’t get a chance to talk to them after the show but wonder what they thought of Winter’s Bone, which might be interpreted as a “negative” portrait of drug dealers in the Missouri Ozarks. At [...]

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We have a winner!  We’ve just (finally!) done our iPad drawing.  I’d like to thank all our readers and writers who wrote in asking to be entered in the drawing.  We received several hundreds of entries, and had to scrounge up a very large hat to throw in all the emails we received.  I stirred [...]

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Rejection is a significant part of a writer’s life.  Everyone gets rejected.  This is simply the way it is for writers, whether you are an emerging writer or A Very Famous Writer.  You can read a list here of 30 famous authors who were turned down by various publishers (tip o’the cap to Nathan Bransford [...]

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This week Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ramona Koval interviewed Jason Anthony about his experience in Antarctica. Anthony’s essay, “Song of Hypothermia,” appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The Missouri Review and was the springboard for much of the conversation. We’ve posted the full essay for your reading enjoyment, and you can hear the interview here.

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If you were listening to Columbia’s NPR station last week and thought you heard Speer’s voice, you weren’t mistaken. Speer sat down to chat with Janet Saidi for Off the Clock, a local arts/culture program. Listen to the complete interview here.

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