Drew Johnson

Fiction out there in @kenyonreview @Harpers @TLR_tweets @VQR @NERweb. Once, I was from Mississippi.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

Hey there, all you folks. The @kenyonreview has my story "A Naked Horse" up as one small part of their jam-packed new issue. Mine's a wacky one, and I'm so glad to see it out in the wide world.

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

Our Jan/Feb 2022 issue is available now! Featuring fiction by Lan Samantha Chang, @vanjchan, and @DrewalsoKermit; poetry by
@cawkward_rich, Cate Marvin, Maggie Millner, and Joan Wickersham; nonfiction by
@melissachadburn & more: https://t.co/o98QLEPkya

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@realMattKParker The Golden Apples (with that great Bascove cover) is one of the most underrated collections in American fiction. Welty at her finest.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@alvinlu @realMattKParker Those are two of my favorites as well. And the Howard of Charterhouse rocks. I do want to try the Moncrieff for the Moncrieff of it all, though.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

I swear. Is it really summer until you’re sipping something in the cool of the evening whilst reading in that 8th grade geography textbook from heaven, yes, I mean Fernand Braudel’s The Mediterranean and The Mediterranean World in the Age of of Philip II? Maybe, but I doubt it.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@WhatHoARat (By this one, I meant the one you're reading. Not Women & Men, which I am, so far, 150 pages in, quite liking.)

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@WhatHoARat I think your instincts are right on. Reading McElroy’s Women & Men now. Many a tentacular novel have I traversed and loved. Some have failed me. This one is a failure. Outright, for my part.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@CamShepherdTX @johntedge @TrueSouthTV Where is this?

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@saintsoftness @parisreview Oh yay. I’m newly on Christensen’s path, via this poem. The Mantegna novella is in my head now, weird and persistent.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

“Samuel Butler believed The Iliad to be a burlesque of Greek Jingoism and Greek religion, written by a hostage or a slave…” -G. B. Shaw, preface to Saint Joan

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@saintsoftness In a smart, new journal--VOLTA--done by some smart young folks. A story, "You Could Be a Sportcoat" https://t.co/66EElFRhji

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@saintsoftness Kitty, Kitaj. Kitty, Kitaj.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@aliner The Scherzi of it all. The resplendent owls on angled poles. Those dang magi.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@fender_belly @ryanhasbadtaste Utah! Get me two.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@aliner Yes! But have you yet Inger Christensen-ed? You must!

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

Good mail day. Only going to be my second Inger Christensen, but if it’s anything like my first…actually the same goes for the Calasso.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@jreidchapman Mostly done with his Tiepolo book! The Scherzi! The Scherzi of it all.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@DAMendelsohnNYC This spring I built an intro to lit (for high school kids in an early college program) round the anticipation: extracts from The Odyssey with all manner of allusive later poetry: Brodsky, Cavafy, Gluck, Virgil, Walcott, Ruefle, Oswald, Komunyakaa, Pavese, Tennyson, et al.

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@ZIssenberg Carpentaria!

[Drew Johnson @DrewalsoKermit]

@WilliamHogeland As a Floridian, I’m always compelled to remind that Laura Riding Jackson is pretty important in any discussion of Graves & mythology. Also, she’s just awesome.

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

My friend Oscar Mandel, who was born in Belgium in 1926, escaped the Nazis in 1940, and taught literature for decades at Cal Tech, died two days ago—just three months shy of his 100th. He was a great thinker, a great stylist, a great wit. The embodiment of culture. His lullaby: