Running across Michael Copperman’s short story “It”—and his accompanying craft essay “Race, Authenticity, Culpability”—in Copper Nickel‘s new online venue COIN reminded me why I read literary magazines. Life is hectic. Motivations can get confused. Students and neighbors alike look at me quizzically when I tell them what I’m reading—the new issue of Conjunctions at the moment—and

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I have trouble choosing the words, so I repeat them with variations. The problem is the verbs. The past tense, I suppose. The past tense is the sad one, the nevermore. But it’s more than that. I didn’t cry when I heard the news. I didn’t cry in her little room, where she smiled and

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While reading a brief history of Twitter recently, I was introduced to the idea of “narrowcasting,” which, according to Webopedia, is “To send data to a specific list of recipients.” Normally the term is used in reference to technologies that send out information to specific groups (eg, email lists). But every technology is an extension

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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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What makes an object, a practice, a custom, or a movement defunct? When its use value has been exhausted? Or when its emissaries have abandoned it for something else? These are just a few of the questions Defunct, a new literary magazine, raises. In his essay Sum of Zero, Chris Offutt writes about the defunct

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Shaking Like a Mountain is an online literary journal featuring writing about music. The journal is edited by Wayne Cresser, Vito Grippi, Jed Griswold, and John Hames, with contributing editors such as Amity Bitzel, Janice Eidus, Marion Winik, and others. Francesca Macchiavelli spoke with co-editor Vito Grippi. Francesca Macchiavelli: How long have you been working

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Dear Online Literary Community, I’ve been thinking about what you said. After talking with friends and reading comments here and elsewhere, I want to respond to a few general things regarding my first Duckfoot proposal and then make another one. I’m committed to the idea that creative writing belongs in public discourse. I think we

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PANK’s Queer Issue, edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington, presents some of the finest writing from around the globe. In his introduction, “Why Queer?” Jones-Yelvington writes a eloquent if circumspect analysis of Queer identity and writing. He writes, For an issue of a literary magazine to mark itself as Queer is necessarily a political act. It is

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