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
Random news from the lit mag world.
Best of lists are by definition failures. They are subjective and, in most cases, arbitrary. But they can be useful for the conversations they create (often born from disagreement) and their recognition of quality; they bring attention to things. Though the media is awash with similar lists for albums, books, film, restaurants, and much else, I
The Daily Show – Borders Goes Out of Business Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Trivia: John Hodgman’s story “Villanova or: How I Became a Former Professional Literary Agent” made up the first issue of One Story, published April 1, 2002.
I had an interesting conversation at AWP the other week that I thought worthy of a little post. I was talking to the Nonfiction Editor at Salt Hill Journal in Syracuse about online literature, and we came up with a strange question: If we think of literature, in any form, as something that enhances experience
Possibly the next direction for literary publishers? Rattapallax magazine launches VERSE: A POETIC MURDER MYSTERY on KoldCast.TV starring spoken-word poets Jon Sands, Bob Holman, Taylor Mead, Angel Nafis and others. Shot using the new Canon 5d digital camera in full HD, the series is about a young poet who discovers a lost manuscript, and is
Electric Literature continues to produce compelling animated videos of sentences from stories in their issues—the most recent (below) are Andre de Loba’s cinematic interpretation of a sentence from Robert Ransom’s “Three Figures and a Dog” (from EL #4) and Peter Lundgren’s “hallucinatory scrawl” of a sentence from Ben Stroud’s story “Byzantium” (also from EL #4):
“Rejoice.” –Donald Barthelme, from The Dead Father INDEX first-person second-person third-person long-thin twitter-sized square with many paragraph breaks with rhetorical questions long by a famous person by an unknown person *
New York City based literary magazine Armchair/Shotgun is looking for a new graphic & book designer: Job Posting: Graphic and Book Designer Armchair/Shotgun is seeking a graphic and book designer to assist in the design, layout, and production of a Brooklyn-based literary magazine which twice yearly publishes (on paper!) exemplary new fiction, poetry, and visual
The following is a message about an interesting new book project: Dear Internet, We are very excited to announce the coming existence of The Official Catalog of the Library of Potential Literature. The Catalog is to consist of a series of blurbs/short descriptions of books that do not exist. In order to compile that Catalog,
Black Clock, a lit mag from Cal Arts, has posted an interview on their blog with the editors and designer of Birkensnake, which they call “one of the swankest journals out there.” I couldn’t agree more (and have said so in the past). The interview—”Birkensnake: The Mutant Left-Behind Cousin You Always Wanted“—was conducted by Elizabeth
Christmas Card Translated by Sondra Silverston There was this guy who could walk on water. Not that that’s such a big deal. Lots of people can walk on water. They usually don’t know that because they don’t try. They don’t try because they don’t believe they can do it. In any case, that guy believed,
