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
Our fourth issue of the magazine—and, so far, our last “issue.”
The Open Destiny / An Interview with Andrew Porter Andrew Porter grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in English from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of the recently published short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter,
“ALL GOOD DISCOURSE MUST, LIKE FORWARD MOTION, KNOW RESISTANCE.” -James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant Poetry is at our mercy. If the most successful of “little” literary magazines were ever in need of humiliation, we would have but to mention the following: T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was held in
The 1990s was a wild, wonderful, idealistic decade in Prague. Excellent exchange rates and the possibility of a relatively uninhibited way of life lured expatriates in droves to the Czech capital, which came to be known as “the Left Bank of the ‘90s.” In short, it was the perfect time for the founding of a
One author climbs to the top of a tree trunk support beam that’s part of the architecture of the writing space. Another is balancing a couch cushion on his head and explaining wog: a dog who uses a dog-sized wheel chair to get his back end around San Francisco—a topographically challenging place for animals on
The announcement of a new literary magazine is often met with a terse response: Why? Detractors posit that market saturation has resulted in publication of nominal, superficial works, with provincial audiences at best. The LBJ: Avian Life Literary Arts, a new publication from the University of Nevada, Reno, has sufficient answers within an inaugural, Fall
When I arrived at Café Lazziza’s, an African themed restaurant and night club on the corner of Chartres and Frenchman Street in the New Orleans’ Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, I asked around for Robin. I got there a little late and most of the sixty-three vendors had already set up their tables and booths and were
[Excerpted from The Best of Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2] There are two wooden figures on my husband’s desk. Figurines. They are meant to resemble humans, black humans. African-Americans. Every time I enter my husband’s office at home, which is several times a day, I look for these figurines. Sometimes they are hiding under mail and
Permafrost is the literary magazine edited by the students and faculty of the MFA Program at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. It calls itself the “farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts,” which sounded a bit suspicious to me, so I did a little poking around to verify the assertion. For some reason, I
