![]() ![]() He formerly edited the Cream City Review.įink graciously sat down for an interview with TCR. He is the author of Farmers Almanac, A Work of Fiction. ![]() A widely published writer of fiction and non-fiction, Fink's stories and essays have appeared in many publications including the Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Malahat Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Other Voices, and Phoebe. His book of fiction, Farmer's Almanac, is forthcoming from Emergency Press in 2012. Chris Fink is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Beloit College. Only the quality of the story mattered."Ĭhris Fink took over as editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal when McCown stepped down in 2005. He is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Beloit College and editor-in-chief of the Beloit Fiction Journal. He sums up one of the BFJ's guiding principles when he recalls those early days - "We discovered that manuscript cover letters with laundry lists of past publications meant nothing – it would be too easy to stock a magazine with names familiar to the literary magazine establishment. Fred Burwell, writer and blogger, was a member of the original student staff. Founded in 1985 by novelist and journalist Clint McCown, who was then a young professor of English at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and a group of enthusiastic Beloit College students, the BFJ has since its inception provided a showcase for both established and unknown writers. He is the author of Farmers Almanac and the editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal. The Committee Room is happy to continue its Literary Journal Series with a look at the Beloit Fiction Journal. Chris Fink is a professor of English at Beloit College. One of his novels, The Last Station, about the final year in the life of Tolstoy, was made into an Academy Award nominated film. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, essayist, and scholar whose work includes major biographies of Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner and the volumes of poetry The Art of Subtraction, Town Life, and Anthracite Country. Although I love poetry, I knew that not even Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, let alone Wallace Stevens or Elizabeth Bishop, had noticeably 'changed' America in any significant way (except among that tiny group who actually read poetry).I wanted books that shifted consciousness in some public fashion, however subtly, or opened fresh possibilities for the ways Americans lived their lives." In his introduction Parini writes - "this was never meant to be a list of the 'greatest' American books: not The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, or The Education of Henry Adams. Reading Promised Land is like taking a speedy cruise through American literature with a genial and well-informed guide. The Committee Room continues its exploration into the books that have been most influential in the shaping of American culture with a discussion of Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America (Doubleday, 2008) by Jay Parini. ![]()
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