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.
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,
I read the latest, Thurston Moore designed, issue of Zoetrope All-Story (vol. 14 no. 4) yesterday evening while my daughter was at basketball practice. It’s a short issue themed largely around violence and crime. A story by Etgar Keret about the fate of the lies we tell (as opposed to the fate of the liars who
Camera Obscura Vol. 1 I met the editor of Camera Obscura at last year’s AWP conference at a table covered in cameras—or at least that is how I remember it. I remember a big antique folding camera, something like an Alter Studio Fotoapparat, drawing a crowd. I remember that photography and stories seemed to make
Three new magazines every Thursday. The Paris Review 194 Lorin Stein’s first issue as editor of The Paris Review is gorgeous, no doubt one of the most elegant and attractively designed lit mags I have come across; very clean. In his editor’s note, Stein adds his own contemporary spin to The Paris Review’s historically high
Cinema has had a long history of influence on poetry. Pre-cinematic technology had an impact on the visual nature of Paradise Lost. Without the Cinematograph, there would doubtfully have been Imagism. And, like most of us, poets have long been fascinated with film—such as Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, Frank O’Hara, John Ashberry, Allen Ginsberg, and
Electric Literature envisions a new (and “robust”) market for fiction: “Literature, Plugged In“. Here’s a low point from this manifesto of sorts from the EL editors, describing the origins and history of the publication; editors and publishers are really going to want to read the entire thing: After landing Jim Shepard and Michael Cunningham for
