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.
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
In the 50th anniversary issue of The Paris Review, Grand Street editor Ben Sonnenberg describes the literary magazine as a publishing endeavor continually at the mercy of money. What was the darkest moment of Grand Street? “When we ran out of money.” What is needed to keep a literary magazine alive? “Someone else’s money.” And
The Spring/Summer 2010 issue of MAKE magazine—their Myth, Magic & Ritual issue—includes some of the most interesting and diverse artwork I have seen recently in a lit mag. The following are some selected images:
Since Artifice #2 has finally made its way into the world, I thought now would be a good time to direct a bit of attention to their much acclaimed first issue (acclaim here, here & here)—which everyone probably remembers as that 2010 lit mag with the all-black, debossed cover. The first issue was loaded with
Aside from the politics, Spokane is all right. If I ever miss the ocean, I can drive there. But I don’t really miss it, or at least not often. Priest Lake is only a two-hour drive, and our cabin and ski boat are fine. I built the boat dock myself. I don’t think my dad
I want to devote this entire post to potentially the most exciting thing to happen in lit mag reading since Bill Henderson launched The Pushcart Prize in 1976: The new Literary Magazine Club over at HTMLGIANT—hosted and created by Roxane Gay. The LMC is just what it sounds like: a book club where the subject
