The Quarterly Conversation has been publishing in-depth reviews, essays, and interviews for nearly five years. We were one of the first lit crit publications to embrace the possibilities offered by the Web, and since those early days we’ve developed a great audience, as well as picking up praise from places like The Nation, The New Yorker, and the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Considering how long we’ve been online, you might have wondered why it took us so long to add a blog. After all, everyone has a blog these days. So why not The Quarterly Conversation?

No more. We’re launching this site to offer daily coverage to accompany the reviews, interviews, and essays you’re accustomed to finding more and more often at The Quarterly Conversation. We’re calling it The Constant Conversation because we’ll be publishing material here every day. We’ve gone through our ranks of contributors to select a number of bloggers who can speak ably about a wide range of literary- and publishing-related topics, and in the upcoming weeks you’ll be seeing more and more of them right here.

You’ll still see the quarterly issues you’ve come to expect at The Quarterly Conversation, as well as all the in-between material we’ve been publishing in greater and greater amounts over the past year or so. But now you’ll have a new place to read about literature on a daily basis. We’re excited to finally have a blog, even if we’re not quite sure where it’s headed. So please come back often as we figure out where this constant conversation will take us.