Bill Caraher | There are a lot of things going on the world these days, but I still hope there’s time to appreciate the work of Ishmael Reed, particularly his novel Mumbo Jumbo (1972). For reasons best left unsaid, I’ve been reading around about Mumbo Jumbo over the last few
Yesterday at about 5 pm I submitted the manuscripts for NDQ 91.3/4. To celebrate that, I decided to post a story from NDQ 91.1/2. Here’s Michael Merlo’s atmospheric story of love and loss. Rest Assured Before Jean left for work in the morning, she said she wished things were
Bill Caraher | In the summers, I do archaeology and I’ve always fantasized about a special section of NDQ dedicated to archaeology and poetry or perhaps even archaeological poetry. I’m not sure what this would look like, but there was a time when archaeologists dabbled in poetry. I’ve even posted
Congratulations to our fiction editor, Gilad Elbom for his new book: Kabbalah as Literature: The Revolution of Interpretation. You can get a copy here. The editors have not yet read it because it is so hot off the presses, but I want to share the blurb offered by its publisher,
Over the last few issues, NDQ has been working our way through a massive backlog of poetry. Now, we can happily say that we’re almost through. This means, we can reopen poetry submissions this morning. To submit go here. While we don’t charge a reading fee, it would be absolutely
Bill Caraher | I get too many emails and the ones that I open and respond to in a timely way (my apologies to anyone awaiting a response) vary day to day. Yesterday morning, I opened an email telling me that Maria Chávez is performing at Solar Myth, the music
Bill Caraher | There’s something about coyotes and the American imagination. I’ve not seen a coyote in the wild, but I’ve seen signs of coyotes (or maybe signs of foxes… it’s hard for a nonspecialist to tell. I’ve decided that what I see must be from coyotes). I’ve heard coyotes.
Bill Caraher | The Pope doesn’t get much space on the ole NDQ blog, but his recent letter on the topic of reading literature seems relevant to our NDQ readers. Pope Francis originally intended to direct his July 17th letter “On the Role of Literature in Formation,” toward those studying
Bill Caraher | We’re slowly getting our feet back under us at NDQ during the “frog days” of summer, and starting to get NDQ 91.3/4 together for its fall release. To set the tone for the rest of the summer, I thought I would share a couple things that got me
Sharon Carson | We are rolling back into NDQ blog mode after an early summer break, and this post has been sparked by an online MOOC course in audio journalism that I am currently taking from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, which has its shop at the
