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ABOUT
Luna Park covers the world of literary magazines. The name was taken from the story “Vagabond in France and Belgium” by Roberto Bolaño, about a young man who spends his days wandering from bookstore to bookstore. In one store he finds the following:
An old copy of the magazine Luna Park, number 2, a special issue on writing and graphics, with texts or drawings (the texts are drawings and vice versa) by Roberto Altmann, Frederic Baal, Roland Barthes, Jacques Calonne, Carlfriedrich Claus, Mirtha Dermisache, Christian Dotremant, Pierre Guyotat, Brion Gysin, Henri Lefebvre, and Sophie Podolski.
We assumed—wrongly—that Bolaño completely made up the magazine, and it only existed because we, with Bolaño’s help, imagined it into existence. It was later discovered the magazine did and does exist; a wonderful avant-garde publication from Belgium. Still, in that mistake came the idea that literary magazines are as much a conception of the reader’s imagination as the writing within is. That they are, like all good books, catalysts for the imagination.
Luna Park was founded on the idea that literary magazines are credible, important, and interesting venues for artistic work, and so as deserving of critical attention as things such as paintings, films, and novels. George Hitchcock, former editor of Kayak, once said that literary magazines “are the furnace where American literature is being forged.” A thing we try not to forget.
Luna Park is published with the generous support of York College of Pennsylvania.
Luna Park
York College of Pennsylvania
441 Country Club Road
York, PA 17403-3651
PUBLISHERS
Send issue copies to our mailing address above, or PDFs to the above email address. Galleys or final copies are both fine.
Online magazines, please send a link and short blurb about your magazine to our above email address.
To excerpt recent issues at Luna Park, please send excerpts as DOC or RTF format as an attachement. (If needs be, PDF file formats are acceptable.)
To publish commentary about your magazine, please send commentary by email as DOC or RTF attachments. Feel free to query.
General information about your (or other) magazines? Send information about print magazines to Travis Kurowski at lunaparkreview@gmail.com and online magazines to Marcelle Heath at lunaparkonline@gmail.com.
WRITERS
Please send essays, reviews, or interviews about the literary magazine world by email as DOC or RTF file attachments. For examples of what we publish, check out our archive. Feel free to query.
Submit via our online submission host: Submishmash.
WHO WE ARE
Editor: Travis Kurowski
Managing Editor: Sarah Kurowski
Assistant Editor / Online Editor: Marcelle Heath
New York Editor: Robert Bern
Staff Writers: Nicholas Ripatrazone, Sam Ruddick, William Wright, David Backer, Greg Weiss
Advisory Board: Frederick Barthelme, Phillip Gentile, Todd Zuniga
Website: Supreme Value