In Person
August 30, 2011
A Visit to Gettysburg 1
by Janet Potter
The Gettysburg gaze is a particular brand of narration that pervades the town, describing every skirmish as good vs. good. Good wins.
August 8, 2011
My Bread Loaf 10
by Gail Gauthier
When the rumor came back to the kitchen that a writer had suffered some sort of nervous breakdown, we felt badly, but, hey, writing isn’t an easy field to break into. At the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, even the kitchen crew knew that.
July 21, 2011
A Critic’s Notebook: On Meeting Ayn Rand’s Editor at Antioch College 52
by Gary Percesepe
This is America, he said. There aren’t many ideas. Ayn Rand had a few simple ones which she believed in fiercely and promoted relentlessly.
June 28, 2011
Working on John Banville: My Awkward Relationship with My Subject 14
by Mark O'Connell
“You must absolutely despise me,” Banville said. I told him—truthfully—that I had somehow managed not to.
May 9, 2011
He Was Water: Kenyon Grads Remember David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech 19
by Kevin Hartnett
Did Wallace’s speech resonate on the hot Ohio morning when he delivered it to the assembled student, or did it get lost amid the hurrah of a graduation weekend?
May 3, 2011
Watching Cuba Watching 26
by Julie Limbaugh
I am in Havana, sitting next to Pepé on the seawall of the Malecón. The news tells me that Cuba is changing, but the sun still looks like a tangerine soaked in blood. We watch it sinking fast into the ocean.
