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I just read a great article about the so-called “chick lit” genre on Utne.com, the Web site for one of my favorite magazines. Author Anjula Razdan discussed whether books that…    read more

In the last few weeks, I have contemplated the arts community in today’s culture, the vital and sometimes dwindling role it plays in day-to-day American life. I walked up through…    read more

The current, charged debate over the moral and legal implications of same-sex marriage has already yielded one concrete result: a lot of very good writers are making their voices heard.…    read more

Like The Missouri Review blog page and blogs in general? You might be interested in the New York Daily News article, “I am woman, hear me blog,” which includes descriptions…    read more

Edward P. Jones, author of the Pen/Hemingway Award winning collection of short stories, Lost in the City, has just won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction (here’s another…    read more

[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