Jim Shepard, editor
Jim Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and Project X, guest-edited the fall issue of Ploughshares. (Via.)
Jim Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and Project X, guest-edited the fall issue of Ploughshares. (Via.)
“Said felt he had to transform every situation he entered”; any less “smacked of victimage.” 3 Quarks Daily excerpts my former professor H. Aram Veeser’s new biography of Edward Said.
A professor emails her old MFA students in South Carolina to tell them how intellectually superior the new ones at Columbia are. I dunno. Columbia has graduated many outstanding writers but also, one professor contends, some demonstrably terrible ones.
Yes! Wire creator David Simon has, alongside Annette Gordon-Reed, David Cromer, and Yiyun Li, been awarded a MacArthur (genius) grant. My pal Balk and I duel at sundown.