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
Review submissions are always welcome at lunaparkreview@gmail.com.
Named after the inner layer of skin beneath the epidermis, Corium‘s debut issue features some terrific writers and writing, including Kim Chinquee, Laura Ellen Scott, Sheldon Compton, Sam Rasnake, Cami Park and more—not surprising, considering its veteran team: Lauren Becker, Heather Fowler, and Greg Gerke. The site’s minimalist design is deceiving. What seems to be
Gulf Coast 22.1 is very good, particularly its prose. Unusually—at least in my experience—its two best prose pieces are supplied by its fiction and nonfiction contest-winners: Dana Kinstler and Kelly Blikre. Kinstler’s “Bird in My Throat” tells the story, from Ava’s, the wife’s, perspective, of a young, seemingly privileged 1960s couple who move down to
Review of The Laurel Review, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2009) Previous to this issue, I last read The Laurel Review in 2000—Volume 34, Number 1. The Laurel Review has improved in the last nine years, or at least moved closer to my taste, but is still a bit too straitlaced, Raymond Carver earnest for
Part 5: All the News Now we come to the end, and, in the end, what we buy newspapers for is the news. Other print matter we buy for other reasons, things such as novels, literary magazines, comic books & so forth. Newspapers are for the news, and so it is good to see that
Part 4: The Comics As I’ve been reading through The Panorama this past week (see posts 1, 2, and 3) and recording my reading experience, I realized that most of my associations with newspapers date back to my childhood twenty or so years ago, and, more specifically, to my father. This realization came earlier this
Part 3: Section One (or The News) The name “San Francisco Panorama” is emblazoned across the top half of the front page of the newspaper in a chunky, Chris Ware like (or actual Chris Ware?) font: a tall, imposing font with a sense of humor. Like a comic strip. Already, The Panorama is reaching into
Part 2: The Book Review of the Future? That’s what Gregory Cowles called The Panorama’s book review section yesterday in the NYTimes Paper Cuts blog—a side project of their own book review section. And I guess that is what this Panorama thing is supposed to represent: something from the future, something about what newspapers could
This week, Luna Park will be posting a day-by-day reading of McSweeney’s recent newspaper-styled issue 33, The San Francisco Panorama. Our copy just arrived in the mail a week ago, so we are, honestly, getting a bit of a late start here, but hoping to make that up with duration of coverage. Honestly, the issue
I have no experience with gorilla suits or child soldiering, myself, but I think it’s reasonable to suspect that standing around in a gorilla suit is better than being coerced into shooting people, or getting shot at. The inside cover ofVersal’s 7th issue gives us a clue to the magazine’s aesthetic: the definition of “versal.” As
Review of Cave Wall 5 (Winter/Spring 2009) When a young prize-winning poet decides to publish her own poetry journal, readers learn whether her taste matches her talent. In Cave Wall, editor Rhett Iseman Trull, winner of the Anhinga Poetry Prize, shows that she can pick as well as write a good poem. Arguably, the first
