Jacquelyn Pope reviews Ronan McDonald’s THE DEATH OF THE CRITIC

Published in September 29th, 2008
Posted by editor in Literature Reviews, Non-Fiction
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McDonald, Rónán. The Death of the Critic. New York, NY: Continuum Books, 2007. 176 pp. 23.95 (cloth). [View title on Goodreads.com] The Death of the Critic is a concise and persuasive argument for the necessity of an engaged, evaluative criticism of literature, one in which critics address readers instead of each other.

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Sucka-Free Democracy: Hip-Hop’s Potential Response to an Obama Presidency (A POST NO ILLS E-Roundtable)

Published in September 23rd, 2008
Posted by editor in Art and Politics, Commentary
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ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: Adam Bradley R. Scott Heath Natalie Hopkinson Natalie Y. Moore Mark Anthony Neal

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Brick and Metaphor: Three Conversations with Literary and Writing Center Directors (Part 2)

Published in September 15th, 2008
Posted by editor in Arts Administration, Interviews
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Conversation Two: Shara McCallum, Director of Bucknell University’s Stadler Poetry Center in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania [link]. . The Stadler Poetry Center is home to the Stadler Center Writers Series, Sandra & Gary Sojka Visitng Poet, Poet-in-Residence, Stadler Fellowship, Stadler Emerging Writer Fellowship, Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and the [...]

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Brick and Metaphor: Three Conversations with Literary and Writing Center Directors (Part 1)

Published in September 7th, 2008
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Conversation One: Charles Jensen, Director of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland [link]. . Former POET LORE Assistant Editor Alexis Katchuk chats with Charles Jensen—new Director of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland—upon his assuming leadership of one of the longer-standing literary institutions in the D.C. area.

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