Well of course the DIY/cyberpunk movement known as steampunk has its own downloadable magazine: Steampunk Magazine–just print, fold, staple. The traditionally much less DIY publisher HarperCollins follows suit, planning to put free books on the internet. n+1 prints fascinating essay about writings of Virginia Tech shooter. Over at n+1 nemesis site, Gawker, report of REM’s Michael Stipe buying Melville House novel by lit wunderkid, Tao Lin–which all makes the gossip pages at New York Post. Michael J. Lewis writes a cutting history of the NEA for the magazine Commentary. In case you haven’t been to Big Think (academic journal as videocast), you can check out favorite books of Charles Bock and Billy Collins…and Harvard minister Peter Gomes? Harvard also discuss whether its professors should continue publishing in pricy, small circulation journals, or just do it online for free. People of the if:book blog muse on Harvard’s creative commons possibilities. And though it’s a bit disconcerting, perhaps even questionable, hopefully by now most everyone has seen The New Yorker‘s reproduction of Raymond Carver’s correspondence with Gordon Lish, as well as some cuttings by Lish on one of Carver’s most famous stories. Lit mag Knock holds an eco-literary contest. (But will they print the winners on paper, from trees and everything?) Probably the only literary magazine hosted by a museum, Diagram, has their own Innovative Fiction Contest, which will be judged by the girl detective herself. The Iowa Review focuses on war with a review of Tracy Kidder’s marine memoir, My Detachment. Also on war: Howard Junker wanders throughthe first issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. Poets & Writers’s own lit mag reporter Kevin Larimer fashions new way of recording submissions. And, oh yes–for all you gameophiles, Chicago mag Sports Literate is back on the shelf.