For the past year we have been asking readers, writers, and editors to chime in about Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the independent presses. This week, Dorothee Lang—editor of BluePrintReview and Daily s-Press—talks about “The Complexities and Effects of Categorization“: Going through the different viewpoints again, I felt that there are two currents: on

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Today’s digest is devoted to the memory of Kevin Morrissey, the 52-year-old managing editor of Virginia Quarterly Review who took his own life this past Friday. I never met Morrissey, only exchanged a few emails with him and learned from his always generous and informative emails to various publishing listervs. He will no doubt be

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Did discussion of The Paris Review un-acceptance business get a bit too feverish last week on the internet? Perhaps. Daniel Nester—who brought the story to light—has a run-down of much of the online conversation, as well as a new email from Paris Review editor Lorin Stein (not to Nester) apologizing for the handling of the

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Though, as NPR reported this morning, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be finally capped and the “three oil and gas seeps on the seafloor near BP’s damaged oil well are not cause for serious alarm”—there are still millions and millions of gallons of oil above and (thanks to dispersants) beneath the surface of the

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Things have very recently changed at Mississippi Review, as they have also changed for its former editor, Frederick Barthelme, who, among other things, is on the board of advisors here at Fictionaut. Though Barthelme made the magazine what it is today (international, awesome) after taking the helm in 1977, the editor is now Julia Johnson.

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Tin House-gate is how it has been described, the topic of conversation dominating lit mag chatter this past weekend (such as here, here, and here). Tin House announced last Friday that for the rest of 2010 all unsolicited submissions must be accompanied by a receipt of purchase for a book from a bookstore. This goes

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This past Sunday I was a part of a literary magazine extravaganza at Greenlight Bookstore, a new bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. The bookstore hosted readings by Electric Literature, A Public Space, BOMB, and Armchair/Shotgun, who I was there reading for. APS editor Brigid Hughes read a dark new story by Salvatore

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For the past month Luna Digest posts here have been a bit spotty to say the least, as attention has been directed to Luna Park’s new website. But now the site is up—all thanks to Gene and Jenny at Supreme Value. Fantastic people (who also did PANK’s site, among other things) and great work. All

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Dear Fictionauters: If you would, please send me notice of your publications, editings, designings, and whatnot in the lit mag world. Would love to include many more of you in future Digest posts. This also goes for great things you have read by other people and the like. Recommendations are most welcome. Summer is a

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A few weeks ago I attended a panel of literary magazine publishers on new business models for literary magazines (things such as this recently discussed over at Bookfox). Managing editor of New England Review, Carolyn Kuebler, was one of the panelists. As most know, NER is having to change its business model in a very

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