The Virginia Quarterly Review is the literary magazine you’ve never heard of- until last week, when it was bombarded with six National Magazine Award nominations. Now it’s hotter than the stack of gasoline-doused issues of McSweeney’s burning in my fireplace. Ted Genoways, a former editor with the Minnesota Historical Society Press, tapped lots of local Minnesota talent to refresh the magazine when he became editor in 2003. So it’s really a victory for all Minnesotans, especially me (even though I am a total poseur who has never finished an issue of Granta)!
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Mar 17 2006 — 2:00am
7 Reader Comments
4:17 pm
Huh.
4:27 pm
Very cool.
5:04 pm
As usual, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Yet I love the way you say it.
7:27 pm
Ack! Why are you burning your McSweeney’s?
10:26 pm
VQR picks up the MNspeak post.
10:08 am
Get this magazine! It is smart and thought-provoking, while still being cool and fun. Really. There are few things I whole-heartedly recommend in this world, but VQR is definitely one of them.
11:45 am
I’m a Plowshares fan myself.