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Jun 29 2007
A Libyan 1984
Evelyn mentioned the Man Booker International Prize in a recent blog post and the cultural impact of Things Fall Apart. That novel rejected the school of thought that Africa was… read more
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Jun 27 2007
My Failure to Get It On Over Italian Cinema
This summer I packed my book bag, sharpened my pencils, polished a few apples and went back to school, for three weeks anyway. I had been selected by the college… read more
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Jun 24 2007
Poetry: the Art of Pleasure and Balance
As a scribbler of poems, I have often asked myself what is the promise of poetry? In what consists the peculiar pleasure of the well-crafted poem? The first answer that… read more
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Jun 22 2007
The Joy of Creative Foul Mouthing
“Come here, you hoary sewer rat,” I said, patting my lap, encouraging my cat to jump up and get some long-deserved affection. As I stroked his ears, he purred to… read more
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Jun 20 2007
Bankruptcy and Independent Publishers
Salon has a fascinating and somewhat alarming article today about a recent corporate bankruptcy fiasco that has endangered many independent book publishers. From the article: McSweeney’s is far from the… read more
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Jun 20 2007
Revisiting Things Fall Apart
One week ago today, the Man Booker International prize, now in its third year of existence (the biennial prize was first given in 2005, to Albanian Ismail Kadare), was awarded… read more
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Jun 15 2007
A Faulkner Redefined
I was driving through downtown Columbia the other day and a used bookstore caught my eye. Signs proclaimed huge bargains (50-80 percent off), though there was a downside: the store… read more
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Jun 07 2007
Odd Expectations
For a mere admission price of 12.50 pounds (that’s $25.50), fans of Charles Dickens can now visit a theme park based on the author’s books and life in Chatham, Kent, England, where he spent most of his childhood [. . . .]
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Jun 05 2007
Free Food for Millionaires
Five years ago we published a story called “Motherland,” by an emerging author named Min Jin Lee. We were unanimous in our admiration of what was later selected as the best fiction of that volume year. It’s the story of a Japanese woman restaurant owner with a compromised reputation [. . .]
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Jun 01 2007
An Interview with Mattox Roesch
Mattox Roesch reads from his story “Go at Shaktoolik” and speaks with the staff of The Missouri Review about his education as a writer and what makes his characters tick.