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April began on a bittersweet note for the
Kenyon Review family, as Anna Duke Reach retired after more than fifteen years as well, the title was director of programs, but the reality was magician, collaborative brainstormer, assignment juggler, big dreamer and maker of dreams come true, graceful fixer, generous soul. Every summer she and her team brought to life the workshops that widened the literary horizons of countless writers while expanding the
Review’s mission. She also played a leading role in orchestrating
KR’s annual gala fundraising dinner in New York, held in conjunction with the presentation of the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
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In response to a question asked by an audience member on what she looks for in fiction, at the
Kenyon Review’s recent Meet the Editor event, our new editor Nicole Terez Dutton said, “I love a story that is actually a journey where I arrive somewhere new.” An exemplar of that very idea put into practice is Libby Flores’s “Man Goes to Check.” The literal putting-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other journey, within the story, is the simple length a man must walk from his bedroom to the kitchen downstairs. Except, as this exquisitely layered tale reveals, there is nothing simple about this walk. It is cautious, fearful, halting, and eventually courageous. Martin goes to check after the sound that woke his wife and him from their sleep in the middle of the night, wielding a heavy ashtray in his hands as a weapon, his shoelaces untied, his heels “hanging off the ends” of tennis shoes, sidestepping a minefield of toys and clothes. And in the dark, as Martin moves to c
I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.
Rick Koster
I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more.
Kenyon Review Reading Series 2020-21
All events sponsored in whole or in part by the
Kenyon Review, the Kenyon College English Department, GLCA New Writers Award, Ohio Arts Council, and the
KR Associates Program.
All of this year’s Kenyon Review Reading Series events are VIRTUAL. See below for links to our scheduled events, and please visit this page again soon as we are building a rich lineup for this fall. You can purchase books written by our virtual reading series authors in our KR Bookshop. We hope you’ll join us.
Although these readings are free and open to the public, we hope you will consider making a donation. With your support, we’ll continue to provide programming that celebrates the most exciting voices in literature from ever more diverse, ever more talented communities of authors.