ZYZZYVA 93 / San Francisco, CA
New England Review 32.3 / Middlebury, VT
DIAGRAM 11.4 / Tucson, AZ
Camera Obscura 3 / Addison, TX
Fiddleblack 2 / Peninsula, OH
Barrelhouse 9 / Washington, DC
Antioch Review Fall 2011 / Yellow Springs, OH
Birkensnake 4 / Providence, RI
Gigantic Sequins 2.2 / Philadelphia, PA
Paris Review 199 / Manhattan, NY
Bateau 4.2 / Northhampton, MA
6x6 24 / Brooklyn, NY
Below is the opening of Tania James‘s new story “The Scriptological Review” in the latest issue of A Public Space. Not many stories center around editors of small magazines, maybe none do so this endearingly. (Just typing the beginning out now, here, I see how much the story rewards rereading.) James’s story collection Aerogrammes, in
Some charts from Fiddleblack to illustrate their new mission (click images to enlarge):
New job posting: Seeking Assistant Publicity Editor Anomalous Press is an innovative multimedia online journal and handmade chapbook series. We’re looking for a publicity person to join us! We’re a collective of writers working towards a common goal: discovering and making room in the literary world for great new writing. We’re looking for someone with
It was OK to start with literature and art. As long as you said what you meant, and what you really thought on reflection (subject to later correction), then if you spoke honestly about anything you would be striking a blow. The magazine started with just $8,000, which four of us had pooled, plus $2,000
After centuries of blogging and preparing for the launch (and with a masthead rivaling Rolling Stone), the Los Angeles Review of Books website went live today. Memberships accepted. Check it out.
He introduced us to little magazines and literary periodicals by bringing a box of them to class one day and passing them around so that we could acquaint ourselves with their names, see what they looked like and what they felt like to hold in the hand. He told us that this was where most
[UPDATE: The Sun Magazine is looking for a full-time managing editor.] New job postings from lit mags: Literary journal NANO Fiction is searching for an unpaid (sorry!) associate editor position. Responsibilities would include reading and evaluating submissions, attending (virtual) monthly editorial meetings, and helping to man the NANO Fiction table at any event that the associate
I fished in Larry Brown‘s lake, which had good crappie, Florida bass, and catfish in it. (Brown’s posthumously published novel is called The Miracle of Catfish.) We chatted many times on his pier. Larry was great with his hands. He was finishing a solar-powered writing cabin on the south side of the lake when death
Some good news from Robert Scholes—lit mag scholar extraordinaire—over at the Modernist Journals Project: The Modernist Journals Project has been awarded a two-year grant of $270,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize substantial runs of five American journals: McClure’s (1901-1910), The Smart Set (1913-1922), The Masses (1911-1917), Camera Work (1903-1917), and The Seven Arts (1916-1917). The
“The little magazine is not difficult to define,” write David Miller and Richard Price: it is an anthology of work by strangers; an anthology of work by friends; an exhibition catalogue without the existence of the exhibition; a series of manifestos; a series of anti-manifestos…It’s printed by photo-litho; or typed onto a mimeograph stencil…It’s a
