As a grad student intern at The Missouri Review, one of my duties besides reading manuscripts is to blog. But what? After a few false starts it finally hit me: keep it simple, stupid. Write what you know. . . .
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31:2 Spring 2008
Featuring work by: Mathew Chacko, Scott Coffel, Michael Cohen, David McGlynn, James A. McLaughlin, Paisely Rekdal, Rebekah Remington, and John J. Stazinski.
With an interview with Stuart Dybek and featuring the art of designer Norman Bel Geddes.
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Poem of the Week
July 1, 2008
This week's poem is "Your Own Private Oil Spill" by Jen McClanaghan. It is previously unpublished. Jen McClanaghan has work published or forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Literary Imagination, Cimarron Review and others. She received her MFA from Columbia University and is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University.
From Our Archives
Gender Bender
Gender benders have a rich history in literature. Most notable might be Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with its comical swapping and confusion that occurred. In today's society gender portrayal has become even more prevalent, as fashion and science allow us to blur the lines more than ever before. In his short story, "Birdie," Mark Wisniewski uses women's basketball to show how his characters define themselves sexually and as skilled athletes.
From our Blog
A Joycean Voyage to Italy
June 19th, 2008 by Kris
During an early scene in Roberto Rossellini’s 1953 film Voyage to Italy, Katherine Joyce sits in a canvas sling chair on a sundrenched veranda, eyes obscured behind stylish shades. Tempestuous Mt. Vesuvius looms in the distance as she tells her remote, work driven English husband Alex (George Sanders) about Charles Lewington, a former lover and [...]
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Twilight: Love and the Aging Author
June 12th, 2008 by Kris
In the film adaptation of Brian Morton’s novel Starting Out in the Evening,retired professor Leonard Schiller’s (Frank Langella) monastic life is interrupted when Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose), an ambitious graduate student from Brown, wants to write her senior thesis about him and his out-of-print novels. He’s flattered but politely declines. He’s recently survived [...]
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