Sonora Review

A number of items worth mentioning on this fabulously crisp day in the Sunny Old Pueblo:

Marilynne Robinson, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop professor and Pulitzer-prize winning author, has just been nominated for the National Book Award for her latest tale from the town of Gilead, Home. Marilynne sat down to speak with us, a few weeks ago, about a number of intriguing ideas. Previously we’d promised to post a couple pictures from the event, but seeing as our photographers (I’m looking at you, Josh and Mike) must have had the caffeine-induced shakes we didn’t want to put any of them up. Really, they’re not that great, although we’ve forgiven Mike and Josh by now.

Additionally, Ander Monson, the faculty advisor for Sonora Review and the newest member of the University of Arizona’s Creative Writing faculty, has an intriguingly strange and compelling essay in the latest installment of Houghton Mifflin’s Best New American Essays, available for purchase from your local bookstore (or Amazon).

The essay, entitled “Solipsism” and residing between pages 155 and 162, is an example of why we at Sonora find Ander so damn intriguing. Give it a read: you shan’t regret it.

Until soon,

Brannon Larson, Editor-at-Large