The Kenyon Review, a solid lit mag based in my ol' home state of Ohio (but don't hold that against them, please), has a solid online presence at their site, here. Lots of essays, poetry, reviews and, of course, a blog.Here's a snippet of one essay:
"Just below us was a young couple, the woman eager and attractive and the man cocky and fulsome. He was oiling her up at such a rate that finally my brothers and I slowed our conversational ramble and bent to listen. We debated the right word for the young man: unctuous, said one brother, sharkacious, said another, oleaginous, said a third, horny as Howard Hughes' fingernails, said a fourth. Finally there was a moment when the young man leaned toward the young woman and gently covered her exquisite digits with his offensive paws and said, hopefully, you and I . . . at which point my brother Thomas stood up suddenly, launched himself over the balcony rail, landed with a stupendous crash on their table, and said to the young man, Never, and I mean never, begin a sentence with an adverb."
Who said grammar can't be funny? That essay came from Brian Doyle, right on the main page of KR Online.
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