Asia Literary Review, Autumn 2007

Poet, critic, and editor Hayden Carruth passed away on Monday. New Sacramento literary magazine Flatmancrooked to release its first issue November 11, 2008. Andrei Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse joins Oxford American at the University of Central Arkansas. The Manchester Review will publish the first chapter of John Banville’s upcoming novel, The Sinking City. Carolyn Kellogg blogs at LA Times about the optimism of indie publishing (editors of which are interviewed over at the Emerging Writers Network). Lori Oliva interviews author and Duck & Herring Co. editor Jamie Allen at Pine Magazine. Mukund Padmanabhan writes inThe Hindu about critically-acclaimed Hong Kong literary magazine The Asia Literary Review. Russian -language literary magazine Vyshgorod focuses on Hungary. Two Canadian literary magazines—Canadian Notes and Queries and The New Quarterly—take on Penguin Books in the battle over the Canadian short story. Tis the season: Jeff VanderMeer writes about Black Clock‘s new political issue at The Huffington Post. Jonathan Messinger blogs in TimeOut Chicago on some of the finds at this past summer’s 2008 Printer’s Ball. Also in Chicago, Contrary celebrates its fifth anniversary. Two new Janet Frame stories were recently published by The New Yorker and are available online. And—well, they just couldn’t help themselves—Gawker on Paris Review interns.