n+1 issue 7

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 is working towards a literary map of San Francisco. In early December, Kwani? editor Binyavanga Wainana spoke with Krista Tippett on NPR about Kenya and the ethics of foreign aid. China’s “underground” literary magazine Today celebrates its 30th anniversary in a celebration commemorated by poet Bei Dao. Vox Press and Vox magazine editor Louis Bourgeois publishes his interviews with contemporary avante-garde artists, Complete with Missing Parts: Interviews with the Avante-Garde. Paris Review founder Doc Humes has been receiving more attention recently, most currently in a PBS documentary by his daughter. Writers in Kerala, India have come out with a lit mag for train commuters, aptly named Pathikante Kayyoppu, or Impression of The Traveller. Finally, n+1 editors cover the recent proliferation of Jewish literary magazines in the essay “The People of the Magazine” from issue 7 (cover above). [Source: Oh My God London blog].