Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke writes for The New York Observer about a party for the new lit mag The American Reader, which has strong ties in the fashion world (and which—without having seen an issue—seems to resemble The Paris Review à la book reviews): “We are young, and when you are young, you have less inhibitions, and you just power through

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After receiving the new issue of Oxford American under a new editor, The New York Times’ Dwight Garner reminisces about picking up the magazines first issue in Oxford, Mississippi: The Oxford American’s first issue, published early in 1992, announced its ambitions. I happened to be traveling in Mississippi that spring. I remember discovering this issue,

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The Seattle band Fleet Foxes is launching a new literary journal—or the band is affiliated with the new journal. Something like this. The inaugural issue of the new literary & arts journal, Unified Field Collective, will be a 60-page, full-color production released in a short run of 500 “hand numbered, limited edition and non-returnable” copies, shipping out

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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.

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Here is the full-text story “Housekeeping Observations” by Lydia Davis from the first issue of Little Star (Davis’s work from the issue will be included in the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology): Under all this dirt, the floor is really very clean. And here is the complete poem “The Terms” by Alissa Quart from the final issue

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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

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