MIscellany

Random news from the lit mag world.



The Lit Mag Galley

Little Star—the only little magazine I know that sends a printed galley out for review. Bless you, Ann.

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Beer City or Lit City, USA?

I recently returned from Asheville, North Carolina, a quiet urban landscape nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains and home to some of the nation’s best breweries. I visited nearly all of them, and also flipped through the first issue of Black Mountain Review (1954-57) at the Black Mountain College Museum. That’s an Instagram of it above.

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Best Daily Rumpus?

Was “Zapruder’s Ghost”—from July 14, 2012—the best Daily Rumpus yet? Quote: Ann Hood said she’d had a sex dream about Joe Biden. She was on an Acela and he approached and asked if she would go to Delaware with him. Only after they’d finished, and he was buckling his pants and explaining that he had

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Periodical Display: Boston Review

Only 13 days to go in the (almost fully funded) Boston Review Kickstarter campaign.

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Carver on Gardner on Literary Magazines

He introduced us to little magazines and literary periodicals by bringing a box of them to class one day and passing them around so that we could acquaint ourselves with their names, see what they looked like and what they felt like to hold in the hand. He told us that this was where most

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A Precious Organ

I fished in Larry Brown‘s lake, which had good crappie, Florida bass, and catfish in it. (Brown’s posthumously published novel is called The Miracle of Catfish.) We chatted many times on his pier. Larry was great with his hands. He was finishing a solar-powered writing cabin on the south side of the lake when death

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Seven Great Lit Mags from 2011

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

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John Hodgman on Geek Culture & the End of Big Box Bookstore

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.

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Have We Seen Any Online Literature?

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

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From Mags to Movies

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

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