Waldo Jaquith

Biography

Waldo Jaquith is a graduate of the University of Virginia and worked for the Virginia Quarterly Review as web editor. He was a News Challenge Fellow with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Titles We Have Known

By Waldo Jaquith

The ten most common titles of submissions that we’ve received in the past two years.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Rethinking Publishing’s Business Model

By Waldo Jaquith

Micropayments, raising subscription rates, poets reading online, and more.

EDITOR'S DESK

“The End of Ice” at NYU

By Waldo Jaquith

Ted Genoways Carolyn Kormann, Matthew Fishbane, William Finnegan, Lawrence Weschler, Ted Conover will talk about our new issue on April 16.

EDITOR'S DESK

Spring Issue: The End of Ice

By Waldo Jaquith

Our latest issue features reporting from around the globe about how climate change is affecting the coldest parts of the world.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: “Death to the Virginia Quarterly Review”

By Waldo Jaquith

Sony one-ups Amazon, Clay Shirky talks crazy, Robert Irwin gets recognized, and Gawker finds time to dis VQR.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Eat, Drink, and Write Poetry

By Waldo Jaquith

The unsustainability of organic farming, modern-day slavery among tomato pickers, the invention of the cocktail, two new books of poetry, and more.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Young Lions and a Party

By Waldo Jaquith

A new installment in the VQR Poetry Series, Oxford American gets a bailout, and more.

EDITOR'S DESK

UVa Young Writers Workshop Seeking Applicants

By Waldo Jaquith

Let it be known among teenaged writers across the land.

CRITICISM

Link Roundup: Obscenity and Cooking

By Waldo Jaquith

Print on demand becomes viable, reviews of cookbooks, an obscenely bad book, and more.

EDITOR'S DESK

Three Decades of VQR, Gratis

By Waldo Jaquith

We just flipped the switch and made public every single poem, story, essay, and book review that appeared in VQR from 1975 through 2003—the whole of Staige Blackford’s tenure as editor.