<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:45:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Reviews</category><category>Yay us exclamation mark</category><category>Bluecast</category><category>Great Moments in Funk History</category><category>prizes</category><category>contest</category><category>Favorites</category><category>back sale</category><category>32.1</category><category>contributors</category><category>issue highlight</category><category>recommended reading</category><category>amazing hats</category><category>blogs we like</category><category>readings</category><category>Under the Blue Light</category><category>assorted inspirational objects</category><category>Best New Poets 2009</category><category>Detroit Poet</category><category>Francine Harris</category><category>Jericho Brown</category><category>Pilar Gomez-Ibanez</category><category>Pushcart</category><category>USPS</category><category>buttons</category><category>famous writers</category><category>here is the sweet hand you always turn back on yourself</category><category>overlooked arts</category><category>points</category><category>politics</category><category>summer reading</category><category>writing exercise</category><title>Under the Blue Light</title><description>Indiana Review Blog</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>424</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><language>en-us</language><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>Indiana Review Blog</itunes:subtitle><itunes:owner><itunes:email>noreply@blogger.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-7571611552244070581</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-03-27T12:43:30.396-04:00</atom:updated><title>Moved!</title><description>&lt;h2&gt;You're now looking at our old blog! WE'VE MOVED &lt;a href="http://indianareview.org/blog/"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2012/03/moved.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-2535183446242707592</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-11T14:41:39.692-04:00</atom:updated><title>2011 1/2 K Prize Winner</title><description>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
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Announcing our winner of the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2011 1/2 K Prize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"When You Look Away, The World"&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Corey Van Landingham&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Lafayette, IN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;"American Charity"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Jenny Forrester&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Portland, OR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Congratulations to our contest winner, Corey Van Landingham, our runner-up, Jenny Forrester, and  all of our wonderful finalists. We would like to extend our gratitude to &lt;b&gt;Ander Monson&lt;/b&gt;, our contest judge, as well as all of our entrants. Thank you for your  submissions and support. You made the 2011 &lt;i&gt;Indiana Review&lt;/i&gt; 1/2 K Prize a success!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;JL&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/08/2011-12-k-prize-winner.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_76L6_nR79w_v8_gFezi34vmGq7acVIwSSfb4xmrKRd2cqOxZEfu2Yv_xpd9Ajqo5dJjwaw8GNGndEIBYU-pOk2KrTBg0sqjVU6Bp3vifr7T8CyFMQIfo4Wwo3_vskcL3-I6cuDt3fo/s72-c/2057962210_4063cc9b3b.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-1060819088425078240</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-08T15:38:03.714-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Answer to Question #4:</title><description>Here is the last and final answer to the last and final trivia question!&lt;br /&gt;
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In &lt;i&gt;Peter Pan&lt;/i&gt;, the roles that are generally played by the same actor are Captain Hook and Mr. Darling!&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, there is no winner for the last trivia question. We hope you have enjoyed July's trivia questions and that you have all learned something you didn't before. Thanks to all who participated! Even though the contest is over it is never too late to &lt;a href="http://indianareview.org/general/subscriptionpaymentinstructions.html"&gt;order a copy &lt;/a&gt;of our latest issue 33.1!&lt;br /&gt;
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</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/08/july-trivia-contest-answer-to-question_08.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-7608142315597133537</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-04T15:33:38.594-04:00</atom:updated><title>Hats Off!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNufqLg4w2BcrQkxMt6enljE-VmuBDZH-95FVpcnWm2HZPLUxdJlMmd1vqhYhkwk5pY52-LkshXDsp1QErD19UFlSekYIZDFLlvkHt15fXYpPxPwg8MZCZC_Y8NKiUBzZhzpkF_b8kpw/s1600/Ryan+and+Marcus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNufqLg4w2BcrQkxMt6enljE-VmuBDZH-95FVpcnWm2HZPLUxdJlMmd1vqhYhkwk5pY52-LkshXDsp1QErD19UFlSekYIZDFLlvkHt15fXYpPxPwg8MZCZC_Y8NKiUBzZhzpkF_b8kpw/s320/Ryan+and+Marcus.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulations to &lt;b&gt;Ryan Teitman&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Marcus Wicker&lt;/b&gt;, two of &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Indiana Review&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;'s former poetry editors (2008-2009, and 2009-2010, respectively), who were both chosen as &lt;a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes_fellowship" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;b&gt;2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalists.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Ryan is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His first collection of poems, &lt;i&gt;Litany for the City,&lt;/i&gt; was selected by Jane Hirshfield for the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and will be published by BOA Editions in March 2012. Marcus' poems have appeared or are forthcoming in &lt;i&gt;Poetry, Beloit, jubilat, Crab  Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry Review, Harpur Palate,  Rattle, Sou'Wester, DIAGRAM, &lt;/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;cream city review, &lt;/i&gt;among other  journals.&lt;br /&gt;
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Wanna know the coolest thing about this double-victory? These guys are collaborators...and buddies, too. Read more &lt;a href="http://wearehomer.blogspot.com/2011/03/ryan-teitman-marcus-wicker.html" target="_blank&amp;quot;"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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JL</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/08/hats-off.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNufqLg4w2BcrQkxMt6enljE-VmuBDZH-95FVpcnWm2HZPLUxdJlMmd1vqhYhkwk5pY52-LkshXDsp1QErD19UFlSekYIZDFLlvkHt15fXYpPxPwg8MZCZC_Y8NKiUBzZhzpkF_b8kpw/s72-c/Ryan+and+Marcus.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-7634555770298730738</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-03T12:41:55.516-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Question #4</title><description>Last chance everyone!&amp;nbsp; Here comes the last trivia question.&lt;br /&gt;
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Since it's stage debut in 1904, &lt;i&gt;Peter Pan&lt;/i&gt; has kept the child alive in all of us.&amp;nbsp; From the Disney film in 1953 to the Broadway show starring Mary Martin to Steven Spielberg's &lt;i&gt;Hook&lt;/i&gt;, the story has seen many changes. but one tradition remains honored from the debut of the play to the 2003 Peter Pan film.&amp;nbsp; Two roles are played by the same actor.&amp;nbsp; Which two roles are they?</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/08/july-trivia-question-4.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-7851223681608732527</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-01T15:24:28.233-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Answer to Question #3:</title><description>It's Monday and the first day of August! However, Monday also means it's time to answer the trivia question from last week!&lt;br /&gt;
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Here it is: In Frank Baum's novel the Emerald City is called so because of the green-tinted glasses that they are required to wear upon entering the city. They are told to wear them in order to protect their eyes from the dazzling lights of the city. The green tint makes it appear as though the whole city is green, even though not everything is. &lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, we don't have a winner this week. There will, however, be ONE last question posted later even though it is no longer July. So keep a sharp eye on our blog for your last chance to be our next winner!</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/08/july-trivia-contest-answer-to-question.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-6617218646127434759</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-28T12:17:18.395-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #7</title><description>In round 7 of our contributor interview series we spoke with Hadley Moore. Hadley is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is at work on a novel and a collection of stories. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;What are you reading right now? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Michael Parker’s The Watery Part of the World. (Full disclosure—he’s one of my former teachers.)&lt;br /&gt;
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I think the first thing I require of fiction is to be engaged, and the second is not to be distracted by lazy sentences. I can—and like to—do craft analysis, but first I have to be taken in by the story and the language. Parker’s new novel has taken me in. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;What else have you been reading this summer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I reread Denis Johnson’s Angels and Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban because I’ve lately been fascinated by short novels (The Great Gatsby, The Hours, On Chesil Beach, The Age of Grief, A Simple Heart, and Pale Horse, Pale Rider—I see some of these are veering into the territory of the novella—are other favorites.)&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;"Classic" you’ve been meaning to read?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, lots, but the one I’ve been thinking about lately is Ulysses. I used to be afraid of the classics, but now they’re a regular part of my reading life. Undisciplined, I would gobble up contemporary fiction, mostly novels, so I try to read in groups of six: one contemporary novel or collection, one classic, one book of poetry, one literary journal, one craft book, and one book by someone I know (these categories often overlap). I’m not perfect about it, and I do give myself a break sometimes—I went on a contemporary-fiction binge last winter after reading War and Peace, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation—but I think my six-book rotation encourages me to think more broadly</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-round-7-of-our-contributor-interview.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-1695258956069030250</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-27T15:31:31.290-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Question #3:</title><description>Everyone remembers the classic movie of &lt;i&gt;The Wizard of Oz,&lt;/i&gt; adapted from the novel T&lt;i&gt;he Wonderful Wizard of Oz&lt;/i&gt; by Frank Baum in 1900. From Dorothy's ruby slippers to the Emerald City, the movie is alive with color. In the movie the Emerald City is actually emerald, but in the book only the walls are green, why then, is the city called such?&lt;br /&gt;
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Know the answer? Then hurry up and be the first to shoot an email to us at&amp;nbsp;inreview@indiana.edu!</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-trivia-contest-question-3.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-6761728862541936302</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-25T15:19:45.786-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Answer to Question #2:</title><description>It's Monday so that means it is time to post the answer to the second question of our July Trivia Contest!&lt;br /&gt;
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The answer is...drum roll please...Stephen King! His books and short stories has been made into over 30 movies. Sound impressive? Very much so, however, this isn't even counting the number of works converted to short films, TV miniseries, or works made into television episodes of other TV series, which is also over 30!!!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately, we don't have a winner this week, but there is always the next question so keep an eye out on our blog later in the week.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-trivia-contest-answer-to-question_25.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-547927152644517863</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T12:06:34.219-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #6</title><description>In round 6 of our contributor interview series we spoke with Hilary Leichter. Hilary earned a BA in English at Haverford College. She is currently an MFA candidate in the writing program at Columbia University, and this is her first published story. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;I am going back and forth between two books: THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER, and BEST-LOVED FOLKTALES OF THE WORLD. Both books are like having a date with a group of friends who happen to know the greatest stories of all time, and then sitting and listening to them talk until dawn. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;What else have you been reading this summer? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I just reread Shirley Jackson's WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, which is dark and gorgeous and haunting and thrilling. Besides, there is a new edition with beautiful cover art by Thomas Ott, and I am a sucker for beautiful cover art. Who isn't? I was reading about the Blackwood sisters and their "castle" while simultaneously heading out on a crazy, madcap apartment hunt. It turns out that Brooklyn doesn't have many affordable castles for rent on craigslist - go figure! &lt;br /&gt;
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Also, Neil Gaiman's SMOKE AND MIRRORS, which I borrowed from a friend and has been sitting on my bookshelf for way too long. I will give it back to you soon, friend! This book is diabolical. The stories are satisfying in an unhealthy way. &lt;br /&gt;
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Also, also: the short story collection BOYS AND GIRLS LIKE YOU AND ME, by Aryn Kyle. If you like things that knock you out of your chair, you should probably go buy a copy, immediately. I loved this nuanced and elegant book, especially the first story, "Brides." &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Which upcoming book releases are you most looking forward to?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Steven Millhauser's WE OTHERS: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES. Marisha Pessl's NIGHT FILM. I am waiting with bated breath for my copy of Alan Hollinghurst's THE STRANGER'S CHILD. I loved his most recent book, THE LINE OF BEAUTY, which is another great summer read. I can't wait to find the new one in my mailbox. And I won't come up for air until the binding is broken, the pages are smudged and I hit the back cover. &lt;br /&gt;
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I can't stand the suspense, so I am pre-ordering THE FLAME ALPHABET, by Ben Marcus. And you can't stop me. In fact, you should probably pre-order it too.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-blue-contributors-read-and_21.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-6091608688905684154</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-20T12:52:06.234-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Question #2:</title><description>This past week, the last of J.K. Rowling's Potter books were adapted to the big screen.  While Rowling has seven books adapted, she's no where near this author's numbers.  Which author has had the most novels and short stories adapted into film?</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-trivia-contest-question-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-9080662161481715494</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-18T16:32:09.333-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Answer to Question #1:</title><description>The answer to the previous week's trivia question is: Scarlet O'Hara has &lt;em&gt;3&lt;/em&gt; children in the 1936 novel. &lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulation to this week's winner, Kris Underwood! &lt;br /&gt;
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Didn't get a chance to participate in this week's trivia contest? Never fear! The next question will be posted shortly so keep a watchful eye out on our Blog!</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-trivia-contest-answer-to-question.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-4868969518337179538</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T12:00:15.520-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #5</title><description>In round 5 of our contributor interview series we spoke with CJ Evans. CJ is the author of &lt;i&gt;The Category of Outcast&lt;/i&gt;, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America’s New York Chapbook Fellowship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as &lt;i&gt;Boston Review, Colorado Review, Open City, Pleiades, Virginia Quarterly Review,&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Web Conjunctions&lt;/i&gt;. He is the managing editor of &lt;i&gt;TWO LINES: World Writing in Translation &lt;/i&gt;and contributing editor for &lt;i&gt;Tin House.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm slowly working my way through a bunch of great things right now, including:&lt;br /&gt;
Anja Utler's "Engulf-Enkindle", translated by Kurt Beals (Burning Deck Press) a dense but playful book. A great one to read aloud.&lt;br /&gt;
Adam Fell "I Am Not a Pioneer" (H_NGM_N BKS) a first book, but Fell reads like a very mature poet. Some really amazing lines and turns, and the imagistic and linguistic threads that run through the book are excellent.&lt;br /&gt;
Lydia Davis's "Collected Stories", a perfect commute book—every story is small, but so intricate and so well-conceived and -written. I read just a couple on the train every day.&lt;br /&gt;
"Senselessness" by Horacio Castellanos Moya, translated by Katherine Silver (New Directions) a very odd little book about politics, sex, genocide and a narrator that might be going crazy. It was recommended to me by a few people I trust, and I think Katherine Silver always picks wonderful books to translate, but I'm not super into it. &lt;br /&gt;
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Well, the summer is just getting underway here in San Francisco, but prior to this I've been re-reading all of David Foster Wallace. I was invited to write an essay about Foster Wallace's "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" for the Quarterly Conversation and it got me back on a Foster Wallace kick. I've gone through everything but the Pale King, which is staring at me from my desk. I'm a little hesitant to try it, since reading something of his finished by somebody else strikes me as heretical. Curiosity will probably overtake me soon, though. For the rest of the summer, I'm going to try and catch up with new american poets. I just ordered Harmony Holiday's Negro League Baseball from Fence Books, which I'm excited about. Also on the docket are Matthea Harvey's "Of Lamb" (McSweeney's), and a friend just recommended Dora Malech's "Say So" (Cleveland State University Press). &lt;br /&gt;
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I just had a daughter five months ago, and one of the best things about it is she is a captive listener. So far, the two of us have gone through Whitman, Dickinson, and T. S. Eliot. Eliot was her favorite. Next up is either Wallace Stevens or HD. &lt;br /&gt;
I'm also just beginning Ulysses (again), so we'll see how that goes. The classic I want to read is Joao Guimaraes Rosa's Grand Sertao: Veredas, which the Brazilian critics voted as the best book in recent Brazilian history and is sometimes called Brazil's Ulysses. It was only translated in English once, and (I hear) poorly and heavily edited. It's huge and a lot of it is written in Brazilian street slang, so it's a tough one. If anybody is translating it, send me a copy—I want to read it.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-blue-contributors-read-and_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-6784028626672923504</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-13T12:09:02.302-04:00</atom:updated><title>July Trivia Contest Question #1:</title><description>In the 1939 film &lt;i&gt;Gone With the Wind&lt;/i&gt;, Scarlett O'Hara has one child.  How many does she have in the 1936 novel?&lt;br /&gt;
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The contest is off and running!  Be the first to email the answer to us at inreview@indiana.edu.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-trivia-contest-question-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-2001615255184851771</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-12T15:08:52.989-04:00</atom:updated><title>It's Summertime!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cq6HF5kNPJY?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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According to weather.com, it is currently ninety degrees Fahrenheit in Bloomington, IN, with a heat index of a sweltering one hundred. After I'm done sweating it out in the office, I think I'm going to treat myself to some delicious froyo. In the meantime, though, I'm going to try and remind myself of all the reasons (well, ten of them) that summer should be celebrated. So, here goes: &lt;br /&gt;
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1. As mentioned, frozen yogurt: &lt;a href="http://www.redmangousa.com/default.html"target="_blank"&gt;the real thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. Lounging by the pool with a good book: most recently, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.umass.edu/umpress/spr_05/black.html"target="_blank"&gt;Cottonlandia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;by Rebecca Black (&lt;a href="http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/rebecca_black/index.shtml"target="_blank"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Rebecca Black), and &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268188.In_the_Blue_Pharmacy"target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the Blue Pharmacy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, by Marianne Boruch. &lt;br /&gt;
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3. Listening to nineties jams (like &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20"target="_blank"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zGB3bpZATs&amp;amp;feature=related"target="_blank"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;) that remind me of awkward, pre-adolescent summers in the suburbs of Ohio.&lt;br /&gt;
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4. Reading publications like &lt;i&gt;People&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;In Touch&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;US Weekly&lt;/i&gt; without (too much) guilt. &lt;br /&gt;
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5. Dancing it up to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VrYBB3K5Yc"target="_blank"&gt;Lady Gaga's new album&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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6. Orange nail polish.&lt;br /&gt;
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7. Hammocks.&lt;br /&gt;
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8. That the sun doesn't set until 9 pm, so there's lots of time in the day to write. Right?&lt;br /&gt;
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9. Spending time with great friends.&lt;br /&gt;
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10. Working at &lt;i&gt;Indiana Review&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;
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What are some of your favorite things about summer? Stay tuned for a new trivia question, coming tomorrow!&lt;br /&gt;
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JL</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/its-summertime.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-8143769643096411072</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-21T12:00:34.217-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #4</title><description>In round 4 of our contributor interview series we spoke with Jim Daniel’s. Jim’s new and forthcoming collections include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, (Carnegie Mellon University Press), From Milltown to Malltown, a collaborative book with photographer Charlee Brodsky and writer Jane McCafferty (Marick Press), and All of the Above (Adastra Press).&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;What are you reading now?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I’m reading Memory Wall, stories by Anthony Doerr. He’s one of the best short story writers to emerge in recent years. I taught at Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Qatar a couple of years ago. One of my students gave me a copy of his earlier book The Shell Collector, and I loved it. He’s just a complete original, and I learn a lot from reading him. On the poetry side, I’m finally getting a chance to sink into the books I bought at the AWP Conference way back in February I think. I tend to read a lot of books of poetry simultaneously rather than read one all the way through, so I’m in the middle of a number of them. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;What else have you been reading this summer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A couple of smaller presses, Red Hen Press and Anhinga, have both been publishing some great books: Vanishing Horizon, which I think is Gerry LaFemina’s best book so far, and Michael Hettich’s Like Happiness. He’s one of those poets who has flown beneath the radar but has consistently produces strong work. Same with Bill Trowbridge’s Ship of Fools. He’s one of our great comic poets. I should give a shout out to Tropicalia, a very impressive debut book I just finished by Emma Trelles, who was my student back at Florida International University in 1993. Two other books I have my markers in now: Working in Flower by Jeff Friedman and Closing the Hotel Kitchen by Robert Bohm. Both strong, spirited voices.&lt;br /&gt;
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I’ve got a big stack of summer books lined up. As usual, I expect not to get through them all, despite my best intentions. I’m always looking for fresh, new voices, and I hope to find some more this summer.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-blue-contributors-read-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-2719467331753570408</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-07T12:05:13.844-04:00</atom:updated><title>Blogs We Love</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhHWZgkZpD67-968774AY84H0QVlOPc8SWRyX0BaTCr3GvE6X8LTNcyqx6_H7ApdMWSs6vve4kdkwSrIHBoH_0myutf2Depf6uMWtkRJpcM6g8e4vNd02LWBhMwmY6Zr2tNF2t0Kg4_c/s1600/aboutawordbrand2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhHWZgkZpD67-968774AY84H0QVlOPc8SWRyX0BaTCr3GvE6X8LTNcyqx6_H7ApdMWSs6vve4kdkwSrIHBoH_0myutf2Depf6uMWtkRJpcM6g8e4vNd02LWBhMwmY6Zr2tNF2t0Kg4_c/s1600/aboutawordbrand2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Recently, a writer friend of mine passed on a link to a pretty wonderful blog called &lt;a href="http://aboutaword./%20" target="_blank"&gt;ABOUTAWORD.&lt;/a&gt; Once a week, from January through June and August through November, this blog publishes a new short essay by a contemporary writer. I started with the most recent post--a remarkable &lt;a href="http://aboutaword.org/2011/06/26/in-the-poem/" target="_blank"&gt;essay on gardening&lt;/a&gt; written by our very own Ross Gay -- and I've been working my way back. Definitely consider adding this one to your Google Reader!&lt;br /&gt;
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JL</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/blogs-we-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhHWZgkZpD67-968774AY84H0QVlOPc8SWRyX0BaTCr3GvE6X8LTNcyqx6_H7ApdMWSs6vve4kdkwSrIHBoH_0myutf2Depf6uMWtkRJpcM6g8e4vNd02LWBhMwmY6Zr2tNF2t0Kg4_c/s72-c/aboutawordbrand2.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-4179119671176291801</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-06T13:13:37.437-04:00</atom:updated><title>Announcing the Fourth Annual Blue Light Contest</title><description>It's July once more, and you know what that means, Blue Light Readers.&amp;nbsp; It's time for our annual trivia contest!&amp;nbsp; We had had so much fun with questions and answers last year, and we're very excited about this month's contest.&amp;nbsp; Winners will receive a free copy of our summer issue 33.1.&lt;br /&gt;
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Here's all the info you need to know to win: the contest will run from July 6th to August 10th,  with questions posed on the 13th, 20th, 27th, and 3rd. Answers should be  emailed to us with the subject "Blue Light Contest."&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We'll announce the  winner each following Monday. Winners will be determined first by  accuracy and then by response time, and will receive a free (that's  right, free!) copy of our latest issue: Summer 2011 33.1.&lt;br /&gt;
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This year's theme: Adaptations. Round 1 will be posted on July 13th.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/announcing-fourth-annual-blue-light.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-6995989984626625790</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-05T16:21:12.113-04:00</atom:updated><title>July, July</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cZqlX0gyikUarkg_JUuoIKAWzbChpkrbjw4eR1QN_2CE3kYmIW41e6eLK-H6cwSRq-i53TdVqVKIQLSAJfDj0j5hvGi7oUi6w1thGbeWJkamLlXTP6BkIMM-UOJkIvq4YpWHCDguFAM/s1600/5898985585_5febc58c3b_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cZqlX0gyikUarkg_JUuoIKAWzbChpkrbjw4eR1QN_2CE3kYmIW41e6eLK-H6cwSRq-i53TdVqVKIQLSAJfDj0j5hvGi7oUi6w1thGbeWJkamLlXTP6BkIMM-UOJkIvq4YpWHCDguFAM/s320/5898985585_5febc58c3b_b.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brit_robin/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;brit_robin &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Summer whisks by so fast! Lately: sparklers and personal fireworks available at the nearest grocery store, hours with Tetris (a dangerous game), and lots and lots of reading -- Alexander Theroux's &lt;i&gt;The Strange Case of Edward Gorey&lt;/i&gt;, Ellen Lupton's &lt;i&gt;Thinking with Type&lt;/i&gt;, 2nd edition, Min Jin Lee's &lt;i&gt;Free Food for Millionaires&lt;/i&gt;, and Kazuo Ishiguro's &lt;i&gt;Never Let Me Go&lt;/i&gt;, to name a few. I marathon-read Lee's and Ishiguro's wonderful novels, but usually, I can't stick with one book; I go between stacks of them. I can't seem to read enough. I'm intrigued by &lt;i&gt;The Millions&lt;/i&gt;' newest &lt;a href="http://www.themillions.com/2011/07/most-anticipated-the-great-second-half-2011-book-preview.html"&gt;Book Preview&lt;/a&gt; and, particularly, &lt;i&gt;The Atlantic Wire&lt;/i&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/posts/media-diet/"&gt;media diet&lt;/a&gt; profiles, because when someone asks you what you're reading, you usually think of books. But what about the newspaper, RSS feeds, blogs, magazines? Not to mention: the visual, the auditory. And how does that play into your writing? People take from headlines, clip words from dictionaries, scroll through their social network feeds. Sometimes, I feel as though my reading gets in the way of my writing, but I like to think that the words and ideas and images lie in wait, somewhere, until they reappear.&lt;br /&gt;
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Up next: our annual Trivia Contest!&lt;br /&gt;
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DK</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-july.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cZqlX0gyikUarkg_JUuoIKAWzbChpkrbjw4eR1QN_2CE3kYmIW41e6eLK-H6cwSRq-i53TdVqVKIQLSAJfDj0j5hvGi7oUi6w1thGbeWJkamLlXTP6BkIMM-UOJkIvq4YpWHCDguFAM/s72-c/5898985585_5febc58c3b_b.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-3497138317258208336</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-29T11:09:17.151-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #3</title><description>In round 3 of our contributor interview series we spoke with Tyler Meier, a poet whose "One Way to Fill Up a Sky" appeared in our latest issue. Tyler’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Bat City Review, Forklift, Ohio, jubilat, THERMOS, and Washington Square. He works as the managing editor of the Kenyon Review and co-directs the Kenyon Review Young Writers Program.&lt;br /&gt;
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Right now, I'm 100 pages in to Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (FSG). I really think the whole thing so far is both hilarious and chillingly dead-on, and if I didn't need sleep and wasn't latently attention-challenged, I might have been sucked into reading it straight through. Franzen knows how to make a moment that flips ironic and then earnest, ironic then earnest, depending on your vantage point, or how hard the moment was flung. They are like rogue coins ripping through the wishing well of your head. Aren't irony and earnestness mutually exclusive? (If one exists, doesn't it negate the other?) How does he get them to show up in the same spot so easily and so often? &lt;br /&gt;
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I've also been re-reading Zach Savich's The Firestorm from Cleveland State University Press. (When I typed this, I typed Firestory, which it may also be?) It's so good: the last poem "The impossibility of sleeping alone" is worth the price of admission. These are poems about precision and imprecision, about mistakes-as-maker. And while they churn and wonder, they are also suddenly gorgeous: "Spend enough time looking at the beautiful and you may think you are too." That's right, isn't it? &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What else have you been reading this summer?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I also read New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel and translated by Mark Ford, from University of Princeton Press. It's a gem of parathetical twists, and worth getting tangled up in. If you are having boring dreams, this will help. &lt;br /&gt;
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Ish Klein's Moving Day is in my bag and coming up soon--I'm excited for it. &lt;br /&gt;
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We just published some new Alice Fulton poems in the Summer 11 issue of The Kenyon Review, and reading back through Cascade Experiment has been a gift. "What I Like" is a poem I want to memorize. My two year old had moved it on the bookshelf; it took a small rescuing to find it. But I'm also really happy that my two year old chose this book to put in a secret hiding place. Fulton is a touchstone; I'm really really excited for her next book.&lt;br /&gt;
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Andy Grace's new book Sancta is coming out from Ahsahta Press soon; I'm so excited for this book. I've been a sucker for Ondaatje for a long time, and liked the excerpt from The Cat's Table in the New Yorker, so I'll be excited to see his new novel in print in October from Knopf. Heather Christle's What is Amazing, her third book, will come out from Wesleyan in the near future, and I will find a copy.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-blue-contributors-read-and_28.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-1593219641646398454</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-23T16:27:33.167-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Yay us exclamation mark</category><title>Tupelo Press 2011 Snowbound Chapbook Award</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWsUr8woVU1UL91zCFm4bHv88cq5N_AbYpqXUYvwaMCiAOGU_eGkyo8kWcGWANF-WsCocxdmTf65RfWX_xwC-xcRyXe-GWcsEc16inRL72H5bGlRVf3aESIDrq9ZmDfzW_rFOYy7y9zI/s1600/5150075398_4fba739f71_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWsUr8woVU1UL91zCFm4bHv88cq5N_AbYpqXUYvwaMCiAOGU_eGkyo8kWcGWANF-WsCocxdmTf65RfWX_xwC-xcRyXe-GWcsEc16inRL72H5bGlRVf3aESIDrq9ZmDfzW_rFOYy7y9zI/s400/5150075398_4fba739f71_b.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlee79/5150075398/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Peter Lee &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Congratulations to our contributors for placing in Tupelo Press's 2011 Snowbound Chapbook Award! &lt;b&gt;Lillian-Yvonne Bertram&lt;/b&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;machine gun villa&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Malachi Black&lt;/b&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Evening With An Edge Of Bone&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;b&gt;Jacob Shores-Argüello&lt;/b&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Orange Revolution&lt;/i&gt; are Finalists, and &lt;b&gt;Sara Michas-Martin&lt;/b&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Particles Collide&lt;/i&gt; is a Semi-Finalist. Check out their incredible work in our latest three issues!</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/tupelo-press-2011-snowbound-chapbook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWsUr8woVU1UL91zCFm4bHv88cq5N_AbYpqXUYvwaMCiAOGU_eGkyo8kWcGWANF-WsCocxdmTf65RfWX_xwC-xcRyXe-GWcsEc16inRL72H5bGlRVf3aESIDrq9ZmDfzW_rFOYy7y9zI/s72-c/5150075398_4fba739f71_b.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-4502010527725785461</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-22T15:27:08.650-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #2</title><description>Round 2 of our contributor interview series finds us talking with Dustin M. Hoffman, whose story "Lysol Fights” is in our latest issue, 33.1! Dustin has an MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University. He is currently working on his PhD in creative writing at Western Michigan University. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Takahe, Palooka, Echo Ink Review, Marginalia, Black Warrior Review, Gargoyle, The Southeast Review, and Cream City Review.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What are you reading right now? &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Right this second, I’m reading Nabokov’s Pale Fire, which is hilarious and brilliant. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;What else have you been reading this summer?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I’ve been getting jazzy with Toni Morrison’s Jazz and my annual rereading of Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.” I’m reading through my mentor and friend, Jaimy Gordon’s new novel Lord of Misrule. Also, some Vonnegut, some Atwood, some Barth, and more Nabokov.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Anything else you would recommend for our readers?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of my favorites:&lt;br /&gt;
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man&lt;br /&gt;
Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff&lt;br /&gt;
George Saunders’ Civil War Land in Bad Decline&lt;br /&gt;
Daniel Orozco, everything, wherever you can find his stories&lt;br /&gt;
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Stay tuned for the next installment of Contributors Read &amp;amp; Recommend.</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-blue-contributors-read-and_22.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-1818854261041348326</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-16T11:27:47.432-04:00</atom:updated><title>Steve Scafidi featured on The Poets Weave</title><description>Recorded at our Blue Light Reading Series last spring, now available on The Poets Weave! Listen to Steve Scafidi read his poems, &lt;a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/steve-scafidi-1/" target="_blank"&gt;"The Ten-Letter Word for a Lucky Man" and "The Junebugs."&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; And &lt;a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/poetsweave/scafidi-2/" target="_blank"&gt;"The Cake" and "Rockingchair Bookcase."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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dk</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/steve-scafidi-featured-on-poets-weave.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-3541461504465004004</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-22T12:32:25.922-04:00</atom:updated><title>From the Blue: Contributors Read and Recommend #1</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;It's officially summer time here in Bloomington, IN and the Indiana Review staff is excited about the latest issue 33.1. With that, we began to wonder what everyone else was reading this summer, since it does seem to be a time for reading and looking forward to new works coming out in the fall. So, to celebrate the new issue and the wonderful writers it contains, we thought it would be fun to ask our contributors a few questions about what they are reading.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Our first contributor "interview" is with John Gallaher, whose piece "In Your Neighborhood Dream" appears in our latest issue. Gallaher is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press, and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, co-authored with G.C. Waldrep, from BOA Editions. He’s co-editor of The Laurel Review.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What are you reading right now?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I just arrived home from a week away and these three books were waiting for me:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Kathleen Ossip. &lt;em&gt;The Cold War &lt;/em&gt;(Sarabande, 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Lisa Fishman. &lt;em&gt;Flower Cart &lt;/em&gt;(Ahsahta, 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;C. Dale Young. &lt;em&gt;TORN &lt;/em&gt;(Four Way Books, 2011)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I’m reading all three at something like the same time.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I like doing that.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It makes it feel like a dinner party.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Yes, Kathy, and what do you think about that C. Dale, Lisa?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What else have you been reading this summer?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I was really interested in what the new book by Michael Palmer, &lt;em&gt;Thread &lt;/em&gt;(New Directions, 2011) was going to be like, as well as the new book by Dean Young, &lt;em&gt;Fall Higher&lt;/em&gt; (Copper Canyon, 2011).&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I read them while travelling.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I also read John Beer’s &lt;em&gt;The Waste Land and Other Poems &lt;/em&gt;(Canarium Books, 2010). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What book started it all for you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This is a fairly complex question, depending on how I think of “started it all.”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The first books of poetry I owned were back in High School, two anthologies.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Caterpillar Anthology&lt;/em&gt;, edited by Clayton Eshleman.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And &lt;em&gt;Chief Modern Poets of England and America&lt;/em&gt;, edited by M.L. Rosenthal, et al.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That probably started it all, I guess.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The first single-author collection I bought with my own money was Robert Lowell’s &lt;em&gt;Selected Poems&lt;/em&gt;, followed by Charles Wright’s &lt;em&gt;Country Music: Selected Early Poems&lt;/em&gt;, and then Jorie Graham’s &lt;em&gt;Region of Unlikeness&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;By that time I guess I was already hooked.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But there are always new books I come across that start it all all over again.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;John Ashbery’s first &lt;em&gt;Selected Poems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Martha Ronk’s &lt;em&gt;Eyeshot&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Rae Armantrout’s &lt;em&gt;Up to Speed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;And then going back and reading the actual books from the modernists, rather than just their selections in anthologies.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Wallace Stevens’s &lt;em&gt;Collected Poems&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Gertrude Stein’s &lt;em&gt;Tender Buttons&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;A big revelation was reading William Carlos Williams’s &lt;em&gt;Spring &amp;amp; All &lt;/em&gt;in its original.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It’s a much more radical book than his &lt;em&gt;Selected Poems &lt;/em&gt;would suggest.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;Stay tuned for the next installment of Contributors Read &amp;amp; Recommend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/from-blue-contributors-read-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1634744964958277371.post-458952411311971623</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-09T13:40:25.210-04:00</atom:updated><title>New!</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8iHDKzcg9LGFEkzM_N8bSWanYkhwFKQHK6Fc4CkCKBbwDo0rLjHzUgO_z9DZuY9rMclLxsrvVhGCkcKaRFteHX3S71Ui4fOBAIqi5VLjOX8ruI1unIJyU3Sq74X5qGXZChFu8sTahtM/s1600/cover-33-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8iHDKzcg9LGFEkzM_N8bSWanYkhwFKQHK6Fc4CkCKBbwDo0rLjHzUgO_z9DZuY9rMclLxsrvVhGCkcKaRFteHX3S71Ui4fOBAIqi5VLjOX8ruI1unIJyU3Sq74X5qGXZChFu8sTahtM/s400/cover-33-1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Our latest issue, 33.1, Summer 2011, is out! If it's not already in your mailbox or at your local bookstore, you can &lt;a href="http://indianareview.org/general/subscription.html"&gt;order your very own copy&lt;/a&gt;!</description><link>http://indianareview.blogspot.com/2011/06/new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Indiana Review)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8iHDKzcg9LGFEkzM_N8bSWanYkhwFKQHK6Fc4CkCKBbwDo0rLjHzUgO_z9DZuY9rMclLxsrvVhGCkcKaRFteHX3S71Ui4fOBAIqi5VLjOX8ruI1unIJyU3Sq74X5qGXZChFu8sTahtM/s72-c/cover-33-1.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item></channel></rss>