I’m leaving for Blacksburg in the morning. It’s hard to comprehend today’s events from the safety of my home in Charlottesville. I don’t think it will be any easier in Blacksburg. This trip will be for work. If any of my Virginia Tech or Blacksburg readers are interested in talking (on the record or on …
Category Archives: Work
VQR on borders and barriers.
Crosses along the border wall memorialize those who didn’t make it (Kay Fochtmann / CC) The newly-released spring issue of Virginia Quarterly Review is dedicated to the topic of border walls, notably those found in Israel, the United States, China and formerly in Germany. It’s the pair of articles about the U.S. / Mexico border …
VQR nominated for two Ellies.
For the third year in a row, Virginia Quarterly Review has been nominated in the General Excellence category in the National Magazine Awards. We actually won it last year, garnering all sorts of glowing coverage in the process. Our competition this time around is Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, I.D., Metropolis, and Print. We’re also …
VQR on Rembrandt.
In the current issue of Virginia Quarterly Review we’ve got a great piece about Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” I say that as if I’d ever seen the painting before. In fact, this was the last (well, second-to-last) article that I read in the winter issue, but I shouldn’t have put it off. Author Harry Berger …
Shared offices for geekery.
I love the idea of renting a desk at a community office space. I’m generally happy to work at home, as I do, but sometimes I’d benefit from working around other geeks. I’d pay $100/month to have access to a desk two days a week, during business hours, using a reservation system to make sure …
Winter 2007 VQR “near-flawless.”
C-Ville Weekly describes the current VQR as “near-flawless.” And it is. I really think it’s the best yet. And, having nothing whatsoever to do with the contents of each issue, I can be relatively impartial in saying that.
My dentist only has People.
Gawker: “The best magazine writing of the year of firecrotch came from The Virginia Quarterly Review…” Um. Thanks?
Winter VQR “intense.”
I’m not the only one who thinks that the latest VQR is awesome — fungible convictions pities poor copyeditor David Caligiuri, describing the issue as “one of the most intense periodicals I’ve ever read.”
The Winter 2007 VQR.
The Winter 2007 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review hit subscribers’ mailboxes last week, and I just got done getting the content up on the website. This issue has got to be my favorite of those released in the fourteen months that I’ve been at VQR. Of the pieces that are available to non-subscribers, I particularly …
“The Big Suck.”
On the occasion of the execution of Saddam Hussein, I recommend reading The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground, from the Winter VQR It’s by David J. Morris, and features great photography by Reynaldo Leal. I just made the story available to non-subscribers, so have at it. (And, also, Chris Hondros’ Inside Saddam’s Spider …