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.
Upcoming: an interview with story writer Mary Miller regarding her new book Big World (stories of which have appeared in Mississippi Review, Black Clock, Oxford American, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere); a Luna Park interview series with literary magazine editors, beginning this week with an interview with Don Bogen, poetry editor at Cincinnati Review; plus an
Flatmancrooked is already selling John Updike T-shirts, in order to, they say, celebrate the life rather than mourn the passing of one of the twentieth centuries most distinguished American authors. In a very different spirit of celebration, The Nation is publishing a two-part series of editor/author Ted Solotaroff’s unfinished memoir “Adventures in Editing” [link is
John Updike, who passed away at 76 this past Tuesday, is remembered at The New Yorker by E. L. Doctorow, Jonathan Lethem, and others. The New Yorker was the big literary magazine where Updike spent most of his time, writing more than 800 pieces for the magazine during his life. Looking back: In an article
Our links page (see above menu bar) is finally hyperlinked. Find directions to a massive list of literary magazines and sites that cover literary magazines and matters related. If you have suggestions for additions to the list (such as literary magazine we missed), please let us know: lunaparkreview@gmail.com
Our first literary magazine dabbling President is now officially in the White House. In December, David Barber wrote in the Atlantic Monthly about Obama’s poetic predecessor. And, The New York Times has a transcript of Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem.
In case you missed it last October, here’s a post on Poetry Foundation about Stephen McLaughlin, Gregory Laynor & Vladimir and Aleksandrovich Zykov’s Issue 1, the poetry compendium composed by computer. (And here is an interesting commentary on the project by Dylan Kinnett from his blog.) At England’s Literary Review, famed feminist literary theorist Elaine
Brad Wheeler writes about the defiant attitude of Oxford American‘s Tenth Annual Southern Music Issue in the Globe and Mail. Michael Washburn looks at Paul Maliszewski’s new book Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders, which details the infamous tale of poetic deceit of modernist Australian poetry journal Angry Penguins. Literary magazine Sidebrow
Welcome to 2009. Assistant Editor Marcelle Heath—inspired last month by record amounts of snowfall in Portland, Oregon, effectively shutting the city down for a brief spell—offers up the following winter pieces from online mags: In Blackbird, Jonathan Weinert’s “An Ice Age;“ Jeffrey Skinner’s, “Glaciology” in Diagram; In Words Without Borders,”Angelo Cannavacciuolo’s White Christmas,” translated by
There has been a slight delay in this latest issue of Luna Park. Too much work, too little staff? But when has that ever stopped anyone? We’ll get this thing off the ground momentarily. In other news: The “Arrivals in the Mailbox” link in the upper left corner. Each issue arriving in the real or
The fall 2008 Mississippi Review issue on the contemporary literary magazine is now available on magazine stands and from the Mississippi Review website. Denise Hill salutes the issue on the New Pages blog. Laura van den Berg toasts the issue at Ploughshares. The issue was guest edited by Luna Park editor Travis Kurowski and contributor
