Hilary Plum
Why We Chose It
By Hilary Plum, Consulting Editor “Undertaking” by Anne Germanacos “I can only make things taut; I have no interest in roundabout or loose,” we’re told in Anne Germanacos’s “Undertaking,” a confession that is at once straightforward and sly, telling us…
Two visions of the city
1. The City and the City by China Miéville. (Be advised: though I would not, some might think this description a tiny bit of a spoiler.) Two distinct city-states, Besźel and Ul Qoma, occupy the same geographic location, their shared…
“The real world we think we inhabit”
“We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit” is the old line by Feyerabend, discovered sometime in college, that often insistently returns to me. In the most recent issue of…
Worlds within worlds (or, the regional city)
Last week I had occasion to visit Charleston, West Virginia, for the first time. The occasion: a needed stopping point on a drive from the eastern shore of Maryland to Cincinnati, Ohio, a drive that took state routes through the…
The Dorothy project: An interview with Danielle Dutton
Just out today on the Kenyon Review Online is Elaine Bleakney’s review of two novels by Renee Gladman, Event Factory and The Ravickians. Both novels were published by Dorothy, a publishing project; I had heard a great deal about Dorothy…
