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[By Anthony Varallo] The books in my grade school library were so few, so dated, and so hopelessly awful, that it seemed impossible not to make fun of them. In…    read more

Fiction staff members at TMR read at least twenty fiction submissions per week; we also read stories that get passed at the weekly meeting, and we read for our classes…    read more

In my last post, I briefly discussed the value of literary magazines. This week I have a piece of related news that puts last week’s preaching to practice. The Council…    read more

When looking for advice on what to read, there are plenty of websites that can be of help. The New York Times Best-Seller Lists, for example, give fiction and non-fiction…    read more

I just finished reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It is a story about a post-apocalyptic future that gives rise to an industrial, efficiency worshipping dystopia. The society is…    read more

For our first assignment in Art Appreciation, we were to learn about an art movement and, in the course of our eight minute presentation, discuss what the movement was all…    read more

I decided to take a risk this year by enrolling in a class in online communication. Before the class, I had been an avid Web surfer for some time, but…    read more

Lately I have been struck by the sheer multitude of literary sites on the internet. Sites specializing in quotations, study guides, diaries and journals, pedagogy and resources. Numerous options flood…    read more

Tobias Wolff’s new novel, Old School, includes a fictionalized portrayal of poet Robert Frost, who comes to the protagonist’s boarding school as a visiting writer. Wolff’s decision to include Frost…    read more

The Missouri Review regularly publishes “found” texts. In the latest issue (Volume XXVI), you can read a lost-and-now-found short story by Tennessee Williams called “The Swan,” described as a study…    read more