For the past year we have been asking readers, writers, and editors to chime in about Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the independent presses. This week, Dorothee Lang—editor of BluePrintReview and Daily s-Press—talks about “The Complexities and Effects of Categorization“: Going through the different viewpoints again, I felt that there are two currents: on
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Asia Literary Review 16 / Hong Kong
Hobart 11 / Ann Arbor, MI
American Short Fiction 47 / Austin, TX
Witness XXIII / University of Nevada Las Vegas
Conjunctions 54 / Bard College
Lumberyard 5 / St. Louis, MO
Birkensnake 2 / West Kingston, RI
Gigantic 2 / New York, NY.
Versal 8 / Amsterdam
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Posts by Travis Kurowski
Travis Kurowski is founding editor of Luna Park. His website is traviskurowski.com.
Aug 03, 2010
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Luna Digest
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Luna Digest
Luna Digest, 8/3
Today’s digest is devoted to the memory of Kevin Morrissey, the 52-year-old managing editor of Virginia Quarterly Review who took his own life this past Friday. I never met Morrissey, only exchanged a few emails with him and learned from his always generous and informative emails to various publishing listervs. He will no doubt be
Jul 29, 2010
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Online Lit Mags : Redesign
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Online Lit Mags : Redesign
The New/Old: Rick Magazine & The History of Online Lit Mags
Named after novelist Frederick Barthelme, who edits, Rick Magazine is a new/old online literary magazine. It is new in that Rick Magazine never existed online, old in a couple ways—one stretching back to the beginnings of literary magazines on the internet. The “first” online literary magazine was technically Swift Current in 1984. Begun by Frank
Jul 28, 2010
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Luna Digest
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Luna Digest
Luna Digest, 7/28
Did discussion of The Paris Review un-acceptance business get a bit too feverish last week on the internet? Perhaps. Daniel Nester—who brought the story to light—has a run-down of much of the online conversation, as well as a new email from Paris Review editor Lorin Stein (not to Nester) apologizing for the handling of the
Jul 26, 2010
Travis Kurowski
From the Newsstands : Reviews
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From the Newsstands : Reviews
Jim Shepard Attacks
There is a thrilling new story from Jim Shepard in the newest Zoetrope: All-Story. The story—”The Track of the Assassins“—is not unlike much of Shepard’s recent short fiction: slowly-revealed characters lodged in alluring moments in history. The setting of “Assassins” is the 20th century Iraqi and Irani deserts, where Freya Stark searches for Alamut, ancient
Jul 22, 2010
Travis Kurowski
MIscellany
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MIscellany
Wanted: Lit Mag Designer
New York City based literary magazine Armchair/Shotgun is looking for a new graphic & book designer: Job Posting: Graphic and Book Designer Armchair/Shotgun is seeking a graphic and book designer to assist in the design, layout, and production of a Brooklyn-based literary magazine which twice yearly publishes (on paper!) exemplary new fiction, poetry, and visual
Jul 21, 2010
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The Future of the Literary Magazine
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The Future of the Literary Magazine
Submissions Wanted / New Feature: The Future of the Literary Magazine
We are looking for pieces to publish on a new series on The Future of the Literary Magazine. (We also have a current series going on Race, Class, Gender & Sexuality in Indie Publishing.) We have asked some writers and editors to weigh in on the direction of lit mags and will also be republishing
Jul 20, 2010
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Luna Digest
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Luna Digest
Luna Digest, 7/20
Though, as NPR reported this morning, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be finally capped and the “three oil and gas seeps on the seafloor near BP’s damaged oil well are not cause for serious alarm”—there are still millions and millions of gallons of oil above and (thanks to dispersants) beneath the surface of the
Jul 15, 2010
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From the Newsstands
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From the Newsstands
Threepenny Fiction
Sam Ruddick, a staff writer at Luna Park, has a fantastic new story in the latest The Threepenny Review, their Summer 2010 issue. The entire issue is actually really good, with Javier Marías on the intrigue of Venice, poetry from Henri Cole and David Mason, editor Wendy Lesser on science fiction, and more. Ruddick’s story,
Jul 13, 2010
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Luna Digest
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Luna Digest
Luna Digest, 7/13
Things have very recently changed at Mississippi Review, as they have also changed for its former editor, Frederick Barthelme, who, among other things, is on the board of advisors here at Fictionaut. Though Barthelme made the magazine what it is today (international, awesome) after taking the helm in 1977, the editor is now Julia Johnson.