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Jake Adam York (1972-2012) and Superman
Lit Mag on the Runway
Raconteurs & Malcontents: Dwight Garner on Oxford American’s History and Future
November 2012
October 2012
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The Truth About TriQuarterly?
Is The Paris Review Like Rock ‘n’ Roll?—Lorin Stein Talks with Brad Listi for Other People Podcast
All Women, All Pages
New Cupboards
September 2012
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The Economist Says Lit Mags Should Be Avoided
Subscription = ART
A Triple Canopy Publication in Four Acts—Act One
Dear Literary Magazine, Thank You for Sending Us Your Rejection Letter
The 2012-13 Season of NPR’s Selected Shorts—Best Season On Record?
From Harper’s Dismissal to Overseeing The Oxford American
Beauty & Innovation In Online Publishing—Does It Have to Be One or the Other?
August 2012
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The Final Issue of Dark Sky Magazine
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Sexual Abuse, Male Violence, and Culture—”A place where the story gets annulled”
I Was Following the New Fleet Foxes Magazine
Fifth: Don’t Be a Dick
Opting for Nothing: Birkensnake Gives It Away
Afterlife = Two Workshops, Tasteful Little Magazine, Sexy Students
Julie Bosman Investigates Oxford American Firings for New York Times
A Material and Immaterial Perspective on the Politics of Print
Because He Is a God and I am a Handmaiden with a Broken Urn—Mary Ruefle Remembers
“Our Story of Losing Oxford American”—Marc Smirnoff and Carol Ann Fitgerald Tell Their Side
Steven Seighman Introduces New Work from Jared Hohl // Monkeybicycle 9
Link Roundup: MFA to High School, Temples of Texts, and International Art English
The End of the Anonymous Editor Project: > kill author’s Final Issue
July 2012
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Beer City or Lit City, USA?
Oxford American Brings on Guest Editor for Upcoming Music Issue
What Is a Magazine?—The Aspen Archive (1965-71)
Best Daily Rumpus?
Missouri Review Editor to Direct Defunded University of Missouri Press
Oxford American Founding Editor Fired
From the Briar Patch to Cyberspace: A VQR Poetry Symposium
Between the Polaroid and the True Self—Perloff & Yankelevich; Boston Review & Los Angeles Review of Books
Is Ploughshares Controversy Averse?
Link Roundup: Amazon, Unpaid Jobs, President of Poetry & Etc.
Cast Your Vote for 2012 Million Writers Award
Servers Down—3:AM Magazine and the Implications for Online Publishing
Printlitapocalypse = The 8th Annual Printers’ Ball: July 20, Chicago
The Pulp Fiction Archive—The Magazines, Not the Movie
The End of > Kill Author
The Fragility of Online Content
Periodical Display: Boston Review
June 2012
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Giant Slugs, Time Travel, Sleeping Dragons, and the Changing American Literary Magazine
To the Tremendous Future
Welcome Back, The McNeese Review
Clarice Lispector Doesn’t Exist
Poets <3 Boston Review: BR Kickstarts Its New Website
Granta Says Hello to the Internet
A Blog Is Not a Magazine
Holy Sh!t: Marie-Helene Bertino, Jim Shepard & Bob Dylan
Notes Towards a Theory of the Literary Magazine: Part One, The Textual Condition
Roxane Gay: White Publishing, White Reviews
May 2012
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Dialogue & Education
More Lit Mags & the CIA
The Scriptological Review
Fiddleblack’s New Mission: Antipastoralism & Concept Horror
April 2012
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Editors Wanted
Plurality and Disorder Are the Key: n+1 and It’s Origins
Giving It Away
The Los Angeles Review of Books Has Landed
Carver on Gardner on Literary Magazines
Reed Whittemore, 1919-2012
Editors Wanted
A Precious Organ
Thirty Years of Mississippi Review: An Introduction
30 Years of Frederick Barthelme & Mississippi Review
Good News for the Mods
March 2012
February 2012
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Quick Fiction Bargain-Basement Closeout Sale
Barney Rosset, 1922-2012
AWP & The Lit Mag: The Panels
Pittsburgh = Books
The Economy of Literary Magazines
Consider the Literary Magazine
Sentiment and Sentimental
Comics Without Borders
29,000,000 Pages of Poetry
Changes for Luna Park
January 2012
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Seven Great Lit Mags from 2011
Still the Message
Dear Print,
Is Something Missing from the Pushcart Prize?
December 2011
November 2011
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The Gift Economy
What Were the Best Lit Mags of 2011?
Graphic Bolaño
Smartliterature
An Intern Digs into Some New Mags
The W Word Is Not the F Word
October 2011
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Literary Journal
Lit Mag Club Returns
We Were All Great In The Observatory
The Minus World
Look, Up in the Sky
Where Are All the Lit Mag Apps?
Recalculating
Occupy Wall Street: The Newspaper
The City as Newspaper
Forgotten Magazines
Murakami on the Fiction Reader after 9/11
September 2011
August 2011
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John Hodgman on Geek Culture & the End of Big Box Bookstore
Call for Submissions: On Granta’s The F Word
2011 PEN Awards: The Lit Mags
Lit Mag Tenure
July 2011
June 2011
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A Letter To My Talented Writer-Friend A., Who Fears She Will Never Be Published
Interview with Emily Gallo, Co-founder of The Derelict Voice
The Origin of Bloomsday
Bend
Writing the Other: Michael Copperman and the Ethics of Representation
And The Great War
The Melancholy of Past Tense
Molly Gaudry & The Lit Pub
Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular: Matt Bell Gives It Away
Interview with Monkeybicycle’s Steven Seighman and Shya Scanlon
May 2011
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On Monkeybicycle 8
Interview with André Schiffrin
Junot Diaz on Haiti, Social Disasters, Late Capitalism, and the New Zombie
Literary Death Match + Painted Bride = Philly May 26
The Derelict Voice
R.I.P. Open City, Hello Little Star
draft: the journal of process
An Argument for Essayistic Fiction
We Ate Whale
April 2011
March 2011
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I Can Think of Numerous Women: On the Conversation About Women, Publishing, and Numbers
Matt Bell Talks Lit Mags, Teaching & His Conjunctions Story “An Index of How Our Family Was Killed”
Armchair Shotgun @ Greenlight Bookstore
A Small Operation: An Interview with Southwest Review Editor Willard Spiegelman
Our Talk
Broadcast or Narrowcast?
Poetry & Aggression
Joyce Goes to the Market: An Excerpt from Versal 8
Have We Seen Any Online Literature?
February 2011
January 2011
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Literary Magazine History {A Timeline}
Call for Submissions of Digital Animation, Electric Lit & Etc.
From Mags to Movies
Luna Digest, 1/18
Modernist Journals Project: The Video
Electric Cover
Luna Digest, 1/11
BOMB Attack
Lit Mags and the CIA
Journal Porn
Sonic All-Story
Building the Literary Robot
Beyond Times New Roman
Luna Digest, 1/4
Best Single Issue Ever?
The Online Litmags I Recently Found: Links
Happy New Year
December 2010
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Chris Offutt Reads Zero
The Arkansas Way: Reading Proust on Trains
Thursday 3: Camera Obscura / The Common / The Pedestrian
Editors Past
The Layout of the Carnival
Thursday 3: The Paris Review / White Fungus / Lapham’s Quarterly
The Only True Journal of Literature About Music
November 2010
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Response to the Online Literary Community
A Response to Our Absence Elsewhere: PANK’s Queer Issue
Active Language: Electric Literature & the Animated Sentence
An Open Letter to the Online Literary Community
Celluloid Poetry
October 2010
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Conflict of Interest IV: Conclusions
Luna Digest, 10/26
Electric Literature: The Manifesto
A Manual for Readers
Of Grand Street
Conflict of Interest Part III: Electronic Journals
MAKE Art: Selected Artwork from the Spring/Summer 2010 Issue of MAKE
The Art of Artifice #1
“Lost & Found” by Rob Carney // Bateau 3.2
Luna Digest, 10/19: HTMLGIANT Literary Magazine Club
Luna Digest, 10/12
Conflict of Interest Part II: Print Journals
Making Windows: Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Luna Digest, 10/5
Is There a Lit Mag in This Class?
September 2010
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Luna Digest, 9/30
Luna Digest, 9/21
Benjamin Kunkel, Benedict Anderson, and the Fate of the Novel
Conflict of Interest?
Luna Digest, 9/14
August 2010
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Luna Digest, 8/10
InDigest 1207 NYC
Tag Poc 50/50, or The Complexities and Effects of Categorization
Luna Digest, 8/3
July 2010
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Anderbo @ KGB = Lovely
The New/Old: Rick Magazine & The History of Online Lit Mags
Luna Digest, 7/28
In Service of the Print Journal
Jim Shepard Attacks
Wanted: Lit Mag Designer
Submissions Wanted / New Feature: The Future of the Literary Magazine
Luna Digest, 7/20
The PROMOSAIC/PO-ERM* Interview with Yeow Kai Chai
Couplets
Quarterly Report No. 6: Ethnological Warfare Atrocity Exhibition
Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes And Vetiver Control
From A To Z, An Action-packed Zoetrope Via Taste, Fruit, Bodily Organs And Synthetic Organisms
My Flooey Love
Threepenny Fiction
Pushcart Dreamin’
Sport Lit
Luna Digest, 7/13
Something We Want to Read
Luna Digest, 7/6
Sometimes Dark, Always Honest
June 2010
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Luna Digest, 6/30
Open Letter to Open City
Luna Digest, 6/22
Welcome to the New Luna Park
Realism
Luna Digest, 6/8
May 2010
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Skin Deep
Strong Recommendations
Luna Digest, 5/18
Call for Submissions: The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature
April’s Highlight: Vintage Magazine
A Reflection on March’s Online Fiction
Luna Digest May 4, 2010
Making the Swankest Lit Mag
April 2010
March 2010
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Highlights from February’s Online Fiction
The Cellist’s Disorientation
Interview (with Soundtrack) with Megan M. Garr, Editor of Versal
February 2010
January 2010
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Community and the Body
Male Publishing
Panorama Week: Part 5
Panorama Week: Part 4
Panorama Week: Part 3
Panorama Week: Part 2
Panorama Week: Part 1
Luna Digest, 1/5
December 2009
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Christmas Card from Electric Literature
“Students, Please Open Your [Insert Lit Mag] to Page…”
Luna Digest, 12/15
Aiming High: The Impossible Ambitions of Versal
Luna Digest, 12/8
Luna Digest, 12/3
November 2009
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Rick Moody’s Twitter Fiction
Luna Digest, 11/24
Luna Digest, 11/17
Espresso Book Machine
Something Monster-less
October 2009
September 2009
July 2009
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On Nimrod International: An Interview & Notes
Park in Transit
Short Story Trailers?
Impossible Realism
Dismissing Africa
Gerard Manley Hopkins & Fiction Theory
Summer Notables
Literary Magazines in Peril
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
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Free Big World
Big World: An Interview with Mary Miller
2008 Million Writers Stories
Spring Readings
We Are Interested: Poetry
Sort-of Prose Poems
Poetry 2.0
Redesign International
Greetings from Knockout
March 2009
February 2009
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Bon Voyage
In Brief: The Appeal of Brevity
Three New Online Issues
Briar-Rose Redux: New Novella at Anderbo
Celebrations
January 2009
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Ipso-Flipso
Updike
We’re Connected
Our 44th President
With Andrew Porter
Robot Poems
The Lies of Jesse Ball
Gass and Bulter: Language as Content
Whither the Essay
Some Thoughts on Poetry
Description of a Struggle: The History of The Prague Revue
Monsters You Should Look Out For: Volunteering at 826
Avian Arts: The LBJ
The 7th Annual New Orleans Bookfair
Figurines
Permafrost: Virtues of Writing for Writers
Historical Fiction
Fakers and Foreign Aid
Snow Stories
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
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First Proof
LP3
Another Failed Poem about the Greeks
Palms
Little Jesus
Flammable Contents: The Élan Vital of Conduit
Introduction: The Magazine Rack in 2008
“Goodtime Jesus” and Other Sort-of Prose Poems
And Thus the Darkness Bears
Magic: The Essay
Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards(1)
The Hobart Role-Playing Forum
What Happens When My Wife’s Ex-Boyfriend, Back From Iraq, Pays Us a Visit
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
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Space Available for Celebration
In Addition
LP2
Excerpt from “You Are the Bad Smell”
The Gettysburg Review Celebrates Twenty Years of “Carrying Literary Elitism to New and Annoying Heights”
Cave Wall: The First Three Issues
How to Criticize: A Writer Attends Meeka Walsh’s Workshop on Art Criticism
Review of Border Crossings Magazine
How to Start a War: McSweeney’s 26
971 MENU: An Interview with Gregory Napp
Ultra-Talk: Triquarterly 128
A Chronicle of Slush
The Last Movement Literary Magazine: n+1
Interview with Editors of The Lumberyard: Jen Woods and Eric Woods
A Poetics of Emptiness: On the Poetry of Five Points, A Journal of Literature and Art Vol. 11, No. 3
“Through Other Eyes” / An Interview with Nam Le
Introduction: Hobart and the Future of Lit (Mags)
The Boat Is Here
April 2008
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The Horizon
A Week of Founds: 7 of 7
A Week of Founds: 6 of 7
A Week of Founds: 5 of 7
A Week of Founds: 4 of 7
A Week of Founds: 3 of 7
A Week of Founds: 2 of 7
A Week of Founds: 1 of 7
(3) Weekly Notables
March 2008
February 2008
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Movies, Comics, and Movies
The International Section
Bolaño Literature in the Americas
Steampunk’d
Heroes of Lit
A Tour Through Big Muddy
Interview with editors of the handmade literary wonderland, Hootenanny
Starling
Two Reviews from Cider Press Review
Not Me Shot Dead
Death of a Pope
whisker get your gun (Excerpted from Opium 5)
On Damselfly Press
Review of Rattle 28, Winter 2007
Fence: Break and Enter in 2008
On the Meaning of Bound Off
A Review of Ruminate 6
Me at the AWP
Mr. Seale Goes To Antioch
The Ninth Letter is “I”: A Review of Ninth Letter 4.2 (Fall 2007-08)
Interview with Benjamin Percy
Me, Reading: My Years at the Antioch Review