Featured
Uncategorized
Feb 10 2005
Will the Real Jerzy Kosinski Please Stand Up?
[By Michael P. Kardos] A few days ago, in the used bookstore downtown, I found a paperback copy of Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There. I had seen the brilliant… read more
Uncategorized
Feb 07 2005
A Sample of TMR 27.2
We offer for your online enjoyment, a pair of selections from the Missouri Review 27.2 (2004): a short story by Peter Nathaniel Malae, “The O’Reilly Factor at 5 P.M., 8… read more
Uncategorized
Feb 01 2005
National Book Critics Circle finalists
The finalists for this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and poetry have been announced. The nominees in fiction include The Dew Breaker (Knopf), by Edwidge Danticat; The… read more
Uncategorized
Jan 31 2005
The Trouble with Success?
The idea makes sense. Give a boatload of money to a young, promising artist, enough money to guarantee that all his or her bills will be paid for the next… read more
Uncategorized
Jan 12 2005
Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha
In her review of Edward Falco’s forthcoming collection of short stories, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha, Alice Fulton writes, “For too long, Ed Falco has been a… read more
Uncategorized
Jan 10 2005
Calamity and Other Stories
Calamity and Other Stories, the debut collection of short fiction from Daphne Kalotay, has just been published by Doubleday. Kalotay’s stories have twice appeared within the pages of The Missouri… read more
Uncategorized
Jan 10 2005
Iowa Short Fiction Award
Our very own Anthony Varallo has been announced as the winner of the 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his debut collection of short stories, This Day in History. The… read more
Uncategorized
Jan 04 2005
News from Past Contributors
Rebecca Black, whose poems (“1790,” “Hiding the Silver,” “Hand-me-downs,” “Stomp Dancing,” “Bartram Among the Seminoles,” and “Bartram’s Ghost”) appeared in the 25:2 (2002) issue of The Missouri Review, has won… read more
Uncategorized
Dec 14 2004
Forthcoming
The reviews have not yet been written. My family has not yet been shamed. The people who live in the small town in which I was raised have not yet… read more
Uncategorized
Dec 14 2004
Forthcoming
“The reviews have not yet been written. My family has not yet been shamed. . . . This, in other words, should be the best time of my life as… read more