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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Thanks to the generous work of Marcelle Heath, gender in publishing has been a topic of discussion on Luna Park for the past months—with contributions from editors and writers Roxane Gay, Sherisse Alvarez, Jarrett Haley, and half-a-dozen others. In our most recent addition, Helen Sedgwick from Fractured West adds to her co-editor’s comments about editors and gender with

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Luna Park contributing writer Nick Ripatrazone has written a great essay on the use of literary magazines in the classroom: I teach public high-school English full-time. My schedule includes advanced and introductory creative writing courses, as well as a course called Advanced Placement Literature and Composition. I use contemporary literary magazines in all of my

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Sam Ruddick has a riveting new article up at Luna Park on the new (or fairly new) issue of Versal, an English-language lit mag from Amsterdam. More than simply writing a magazine review, Ruddick uses pieces from the issue to explore how words function in literature and what it is that draws us to melancholy

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‘Tis the season to support small presses. Once again HTMLGIANT is hosting its Annual Indie Lit Secret Santa. Lots of indie publishers like The Lifted Brow and Keyhole have already begun offering up special offers for Secret Santa participants. Here are some details: From now till December 15, sign up to play Secret Santa at

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For most people who read fiction and spend much time online, this won’t be news: Electric Literature recently twittered the entirety of Rick Moody’s story “Some Contemporary Characters” over three days with the assistance of several co-publishers, of which Luna Park was one. The event was interesting to say the least, and response ranged from

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We are taking a break from Luna Digest for the holiday, but I couldn’t help at least mentioning this: I’ve been stumbling across some great excerpts recently from David Shields’s upcoming book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (a book previously mentioned/excerpted already on this blog by Shields himself, “David Shields: Reality Hunger“). For example, yesterday I

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Okay, the National Book Awards are not quite the Oscars—no one is likely to do a one-arm push up at them—but their 2009 awards ceremony is this Wednesday and it’s an exciting line-up this year. Archives of many authors in the running either interviewing or being interviewed are up at the BOMB Magazine website. A.M.

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