The Easy Narrative

by Zoe Pollock

Tom Bissell defends Virginia Quarterly Review editor Ted Genoways and expresses disappointment that a true tragedy, the suicide of managing editor Kevin Morrissey, has been turned into a trend story, which seems to be a popular thing to do these days:

I would like to believe that I know enough about human nature to beable to sense within someone to whom I am close a monstrousness capableof tormenting a colleague into the dark embrace of suicide. What I dosense in the VQR