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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

For our first assignment in Art Appreciation, we were to learn about an art movement and, in the course of our eight minute presentation, discuss what the movement was all…    read more

I decided to take a risk this year by enrolling in a class in online communication. Before the class, I had been an avid Web surfer for some time, but…    read more

Lately I have been struck by the sheer multitude of literary sites on the internet. Sites specializing in quotations, study guides, diaries and journals, pedagogy and resources. Numerous options flood…    read more

Tobias Wolff’s new novel, Old School, includes a fictionalized portrayal of poet Robert Frost, who comes to the protagonist’s boarding school as a visiting writer. Wolff’s decision to include Frost…    read more

The Missouri Review regularly publishes “found” texts. In the latest issue (Volume XXVI), you can read a lost-and-now-found short story by Tennessee Williams called “The Swan,” described as a study…    read more

The online literary journal storySouth is hosting the Million Writers Award, the purpose of which is to promote online fiction. The site has ten finalists and you can vote for…    read more

Since rude comments have been posted on our blog recently, I’ve been thinking about the anonymity the internet provides and what that anonymity means. My favorite church sign (at least…    read more

Let’s face facts: there will always be people out there who think a literary magazine is a fancy version of Better Homes and Gardens (not that I have anything against…    read more