It’s a Glass Family Affair
High school reading is a curious thing. I'd like to think that the sudden burst of teen-appropriate fiction in the late 1990s was largely driven in by the rise of Scholastic as a business and Harry...
View ArticleDicked Over and Over
Recently I’ve been reading a lot of Philip K. Dick, who for some reason, I skipped right over during my geeky high school years (with the bizarre exception of A Scanner Darkly). I’ve since ploughed my...
View ArticleSpymasters
One of the real pleasures in perusing writers’ meditations on the books they read is the occasional flash of real insight they offer because they have not hemmed themselves in by the standard views...
View ArticlePicking Stories with a Little Help from Friends
One of the questions I am sometimes asked is how I go about selecting stories for the Listen Here Short Story reading series in New Haven. In an ideal world, I wish I could say, “Oh, that’s easy. I...
View ArticleSnu? What’s new with you?
What's new with us? First, our next issue is out. Subscribe and check it out. We have essays on being a ski bum, on being mistaken for a celebrity, on being the new New Haven librarian, on being...
View ArticleHave a Happy New (Haven Review) Year
And here's what we're cookin' up for this year... New Haven Review is back for another year of merry. Our book publishing venture has so far garnered all sorts of fab publicity, like this here, and...
View ArticleOur Friends in the New Haven Theater Company
New Haven Theater Company is hosting its first annual benefit Saturday, Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. the High Lane Club, located at 40 High Lane, North Haven. The event, called “Fall in Love with NHTC” will...
View ArticleFrom an Editor’s Desk: The Crooked Path from Academia to Publishing
Here is a presentation I recently made to my alma mater, which—nearly two decades after my graduation—finally decided to take an active step forward in engaging speakers to help graduate students...
View ArticleI Read Poetry to My Daughter
My daughter is a very talented poet. She is also a first-year college student struggling--as, I think, many students must--to articulate a fully formed criticism of a poem that she had taken on for a...
View ArticleFrom an Editor’s Desk: It’s Not Who You Know…Really It Isn’t
As music editor for Rowman and Littlefield, I receive any number of proposals for memoirs from musicians that tell not so much their story as that of the musical luminaries with whom they rubbed...
View ArticleSummer 2014 Issue of New Haven Review Now In
An announcement to all who have so patiently waited. The Summer 2014 issue ofNew Haven Reviewis now in and starting to ship. Featured in this issue... “Meditation on the Shore (Ocean City, NJ)” by...
View ArticleWinter Party 2015: New Haven Review at the Institute Library
New Haven Review Subscription Party 2015 Our annual winter party approaches -- and we're hoping to see you at the Institute Library, so save the date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM The...
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