Bill Caraher | Every now and then we hear about how an author got their start publishing a story, poem, or essay in a little magazine. These are heartwarming stories particularly in situations where the author goes on the greater renown. There are a lot of other stories that reveal
Bill Caraher | If you leave me alone in the NDQ archives, there’s no telling what’s going to happen. On a lark, I decided to check out the 1973 volume of NDQ (41.3 for those of you with a scorecard). Coincidentally, I’ve been wading my way through Robert McAlmon’s 1924
Bill Caraher | Like most readers, I’ve been mildly obsessed with Robert McAlmon since I first encountering his name during the breathless revelry associated with the centennial of Joyce’s Ulysses. Evidently McAlmon typed parts of “Penelope” and exerted some kind of editorial influence over its final form. I encountered McAlmon
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been hanging out in the NDQ archives and finding some intriguing things to read over lunch or in the gaps in my day. This morning, I cued up issue 51.2 from Spring 1983. It’s a pretty spectacular issue with a wide range of contributions
Every now and then, I delve into back issues of the Quarterly which are now available online for free. For whatever reason I was surfing through issue 54.2 this week. The issue’s them is “Discontents” which seems an appropriate It contains three poems that trace the tensions between nature and
Shelia Liming | The biggest writer I ever knew was, in all likelihood, the biggest and most important writer I’ll ever know. But I didn’t realize this at the time. I was sixteen, and all I understood was that the woman who had bought the place across the street from
Bill Caraher | For some reason, I’ve been thinking about New Orleans this summer. To be clear, I haven’t spent much time in the Crescent City. So when I say that I’m thinking of New Orleans, I’m not thinking of New Orleans as a literal place, but as a place
It is always rewarding to publish a new story from a long time contributor. In NDQ 90.1/2, we were fortunate enough to feature a new story from Jim Sallis, “Lying Down.” If you’re familiar with Jim’s work, this story will be another gem-like contribution to his oeuvre. If you haven’t
I spent a good bit of my life preoccupied with churches and the beginning of Byzantium and this summer is no exception. It is especially nice when my world as an archaeologist and my world as the editor of North Dakota Quarterly converge as they did in NDQ 90.1/2. Click
Sharon Carson I This week marks the 147th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a commemoration more commonly known as Victory Day among many members of the Lakota, Arapahoe, and Northern Cheyenne nations who defeated the United States 7th Calvary on June 25th/26th in 1876. The National Parks
