In the (I believe) Fall 2006 issue of Virginia Quarterly Review there is a literary supplement to celebrate the VQR's victory at the National Magazine Awawrds where VQR won 2 awards tying it for most awards with New York, New Yorker, etc etc (just google it).
The last piece in the fiction/literary supplement is by Steve Almond (a new favorite of mine, though I liked the idea of him as far back as his dj'ing at the Four Stories events at the Enormous Room). The Almond piece is a mock obituary to James Frey of Million litlle pieces. And it is pretty great.
Perhaps Thursday will be my weekly update on what I am reading. Get excited!
Check out VQR, it really is an amazing little quarterly. It has a good balance of fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and all kinds of fun things (including cartoons sometimes!).
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Yup, the "Writers on Writers" supplement came with the Fall 2006 issue, though we sell it separately now, too. I got a kick out of Almond's piece, though my favorite was a tie between Jonathan Lethem's "Phil in the Marketplace" -- an homage to Philip K. Dick that was enormously well-received online -- and Joyce Carol Oates' "EDickinsonRepliLuxe," about an Emily Dickinson robot.
We were just nominated for two National Magazine Awards a couple of weeks ago, in both of the categories that we won last year. We're hoping that this is evidence of efficiency in the nomination process, and that we'll bat 1.000 this time around. :)
Thanks for the good words!
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