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
Travis Kurowski began Luna Park in 2007: traviskurowski.com.
This past October 7th was the 162 anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death in Baltimore, just 45 minutes away from where I am writing this (and where there still exists a struggling Edgar Allan Poe House). I once heard that—along with the many magazines, literary and otherwise, he edited and wrote for—Poe had also planned
Earlier this October, my wife bought me the new iPhone—a phone whose great power seems to be absorbing chunks of my time. I lost entire days the other week. One thing I spent a great amount of time doing was searching for literary magazine apps. I didn’t find that many. Here’s what I have on
I got this charming email the other day from Dave Housley—a founding editor of Washington DC’s Barrelhouse magazine—and thought I’d pass it on, as it seemed a pleasant, informative, honest response to the “submission curiosity” most writers feel: Hi There Writers, This is Dave Housley from Barrelhouse. If you’re receiving this, then you have an active fiction submission
It’s been some months since the last Digest post; here’s a recap of some spring & summer news: Literary magazines come and go at a rapid clip. For example: Charles McGrath once noted “the typical lifespan for a literary magazine appears to be roughly that of a major household appliance.” And when asked what the darkest moment
Running across Michael Copperman’s short story “It”—and his accompanying craft essay “Race, Authenticity, Culpability”—in Copper Nickel‘s new online venue COIN reminded me why I read literary magazines. Life is hectic. Motivations can get confused. Students and neighbors alike look at me quizzically when I tell them what I’m reading—the new issue of Conjunctions at the moment—and
It took awhile before Jeanne finally corrected me about the pronunciation of her name. “It’s Jean-ie,” she said, kindly but firmly, as we were seated in her office looking over some manuscripts for the forthcoming issue of The Southern Review. I had been pronouncing it simply “Jean” all afternoon. My face reddened. Jeanne Leiby died on
Here are things from five magazines from the past months that deserved much more attention than they received here or elsewhere. 1. In the previous issue of Irish Pages—a journal new to me that I am greatly pleased to have become acquainted with—Toby Litt argues compelling about the recently popular subject of history’s place in
Originally published in Mississippi Review vol. 6 no. 3, 2008. Click here for PDF of complete timeline. Overall, this timeline is a work-in-progress.
It’s hard not to love Alison Elizabeth Taylor‘s cover (wood veneer, shellac) for the new issue of Electric Literature. Reminds me of my favorite work of Lucian Freud.
Nick Ripatrazone—perhaps this country’s biggest promoter of lit mags in the classroom—asked readers “What is the best single issue of any literary magazine?” The responsewas astounding, with some fantastic suggestions: Conjunctions #29, McSweeney’s #32, Tin House #40, New York Tyrant #3, The Lumberyard #4, New American Review #1, TriQuarterly #56, Evergreen Review #1, Vertex #1,
