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.
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,
As Richard Nash writes on his recent blog post” The Emergent Landscape, or, The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing”: “transformation is irrevocable, continuous, multivalent, and potentially asymmetric.” One of the latest reinventions to emerge is the Espresso Book Machine, On Demand Books’s digital photocopier, book trimmer and binder, and desktop computer that can produce a
Fall Literary Links This is a fruitful season for litmag lovers. > kill author’s Dorothy Parker issue features work by Audri Sousa, Jason Jordan, Mel Bosworth, Michelle Reale and others. Ajay Vishwanathan’s “A Serial Killer’s First Day in Medical School” and Amanda Marbais’ “Horns” channel Parker’s devious humor. Mississippi Review’s Nonfiction Nonpoetry Issue includes works
Monkeybicycle features two new stories by Avital Gad-Cykman. Poetry by Sarah J. Sloat and Darren C. Demaree and fiction by D.E. Fredd and Scott Elliott are up at Juked. Dzanc Books announces its new online journal, The Collagist. Michael Copperman has a new essay at Guernica. Triple Canopy features work by Jules Treneer, Angie Waller,
To win a signed copy of Mary Miller’s short story collection, Big World, be the first to email lunaparkreview@gmail.com with your name, mailing address, and the correct answer to the following piece of lit mag trivia: What U.S. literary magazine editor was fined $100 for publishing portions of James Joyce’s Ulysses? Answer: Margaret Anderson, founding
The storySouth Million Writers 2008 list of notable stories has gone up online. The storySouth Million Writers award recognizes “the best online short stories” published each year. The notable stories on the list are from AGNI, eyeshot, Blackbird, Hot Metal Bridge, Keyhole, Lamination Colony, and many other literary magazines—some, like failbetter and Anderbo, are online
The current issue of elimae includes work by Norman Lock, Anya Yurchyshyn, Eric Beeny, Edward Mullany, and Sarah Mirza. Five Chapters posts “Sleeping with Pigs” by Jay McInerney. New stories by Suzanne Scanlon and Jason Rice, and multimedia by James Paterson are featured at failbetter. DIAGRAM announces its 2009 Hybrid Essay Contest Winner, Matthew Glenwood,
The Academy of American Poets—the founding organization of National Poetry Month—offers a poem a day online and by email in order to promote the reading and appreciation of poetry, if only for the month of April. (To sign up for a daily poem, visit Poets.org.) Today’s poem, “The National Interest” by Ted Mathys, seems, in
The recent fervor for change has certainly caught hold in the literary magazine world, at least in the bigger of the little magazines of literary publishing. In celebration of its 30th anniversary, London’s Granta magazine has done yet another website revamping, this time adding user-interface features and more online-only material. In the states, both BOMB
