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Paul Reyes

About

Paul Reyes is the editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and was formerly the OA’s editor-at-large. He is a National Magazine Award finalist and the author of Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession.

Articles

Issue 41, Fall 2001

Strange Fruit: The Dream of Elmer Martin

This is violence delivered as still-life, to varying degrees of precision, accompanied by the testimony of news and official records.

By Paul Reyes

St. Cassius

By Paul Reyes
Issue 49, Spring 2005

Through the Past, (Sort Of) Darkly

We didn’t play sports, we didn’t fish. We went to Hardee’s.

By Paul Reyes
Issue 50, Summer 2005

A Florida Frenzy

“Crow Dance” involves a dancer at the center of a circle, imitating the sacred African buzzard as it stoops, eats, and flies away.

By Paul Reyes
Issue 52, Winter 2006

Secondhand Sublime

Touring Tennessee with artist Wayne White, whose landscape paintings are wordier than any you’ve seen before.

By Paul Reyes
Issue 54, Fall 2006

Bob Dorough: A One-Man Movement

Cursed with obscurity, Bob Dorough might nonetheless be a genius.

By Paul Reyes

Death of a Building

By Paul Reyes