cody walker

  • George Saunders and Donald Trump

    George Saunders! America’s greatest satirist! The heir to Mark Twain’s estate! And I thought, Oh, what I wouldn’t give to hear Saunders weigh in on Trump. And then I remembered that, in a way, he already had. At the Kenyon…

  • It’s Not Just Gourd Season

    Yes, it’s gourd season—but for those of us who teach, it’s also syllabus season and course-packet season. At the Kenyon Review, Cody Walker talks about going back to school and all that comes with it.

  • The Sentimental Thinker

    “If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental,” she writes, “that is only the half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a…