http://www.slate.com/id/2138219/ The little Virgina Quarterly Review scored six nominations in the National Magazine Awards (only the Atlantic got more). “What makes VQR distinctive is simply that it has the immediacy of the Atlantic or The New Yorker, but its longer pieces (upwards of 10,000 words) appear alongside 20 pages of poetry. … Inside, the magazine has none of the coyness of the current crop of small magazines, like McSweeney’s, The Believer, or N+1.” 08:12
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Entry Posted March 21, 2006
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… Roncagliolo and poetry from Marjorie Agosín. The issues leads off with an essay by my (full disclosure here) brother-in-law Daniel Alarcón, who co-edited the project with VQR editor Ted Genoways. (Those unfamiliar with VQR may be interested inMeghan O’Rourke’s appreciation in Slate.) I had a great time reporting the story, not so much fun writing it. In the end, though, I’m happy with it, and relieved to finally see it in print. Here’s how it begins: We caught a predawn flight out of Cuiabá. The plane headed north in …
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