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I’m always excited when my interests in music and literature overlap. I’m an avid fan of Jeff Buckley, a musician who died in 1997 at a time when he was…    read more

By virtue of location, Columbia has found itself a lucky stopping place for many famous faces traveling the highway track across the U.S. Last week was no exception with Michael…    read more

A couple of weeks ago I saw that Newsweek had recommended, for a little time-wasting, the homestarrunner.com web site. Which means, I suppose, that this strange and hilarious web site…    read more

So what if you entered a fiction contest, paid a $25 entry fee, then became informed that the contest would be discontinued? You might expect a refund, right? A reader…    read more

Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle, is coming next week for a visiting writer residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia, which is, of course, home to The Missouri Review.…    read more

This entry is going to be more of a question than anything else, so feel free to respond. My professor for my English class on the Harlem Renaissance suggested that…    read more

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of noting that the wonderful writer Edward P. Jones won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel The Known World.…    read more

Most of us who post for Inside the Missouri Review are new to blogging, both as writers and readers. Consequently, each of us (there are fourteen of us, give or…    read more

The Missouri Review is hosting a dinner tonight for author Michael Byers. Byers was a previous TMR Editors’ Prize winner in fiction for his story “Settled on the Cranberry Coast,”…    read more

Since I started at TMR, I’ve read about two hundred stories, and I’m starting to notice some patterns. For the most part, stories seem to fit into one of several…    read more