Posts Tagged ‘literary criticism’

Biografiend

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN-10:  0374178720 (This review was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books on July 25, 2012) T. S. Eliot claimed James Joyce killed the nineteenth century. And he ought to know — Eliot, reportedly, was at the scene of the crime. […]

Fly me to the moons, 1Q84 review – an Editor’s Pick on Open Salon

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Now appearing on the cover (today anyway) of Open Salon, an Editor’s Pick – cool.

The day I accepted a story for Hunger Mountain—a visit to Yesville

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

(This is part 2 of a rant on what it’s like to be the new fiction editor of Hunger Mountain – A Journal of the Arts based in Montpelier, Vermont.) Dawns like any other.  Cold, miserable, wet and dark.  Man, that was some winter. Wasn’t it rotten where you were?  Don’t tell me you’re from […]

I, Keymaster

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Earlier this year, I was named fiction editor of Montpelier, Vermont-based Hunger Mountain – A Journal of the Arts. Great publication.  A wonderful honor. Coming to grips with this new gig, the rejecting and accepting–mostly rejecting, I scribbled the bit below. Part I. How do I explain this fiction editor thing? Think of me as Rick […]

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