The first issue of Swink arrived in my mailbox today, apparently ahead of the issue’s debut in bookstores. Coincidentally, the mag is also featured in today’s PW Newsline (a daily email from Publisher’s Weekly) under the topic “The New New Literary Magazine.” Founder Leelila Strogov is quoted describing the intended readership: “There are many magazines …
Tag Archives: Writing & publishing
And you thought you were unhappy before…
The anonymous midlist author who shared her story on Salon this week gets not a smidge of sympathy from other authors, from publishers, from book sellers … ok, you get the point.
In a New York state of mind
Tremble has been on a roll lately. Of course, last night he did a reading at the “Giant Tuesday Night of Amazing Inventions” so we shouldn’t expect anything new today or perhaps tomorrow. But there’s much to enjoy with the recent posts. I had the good fortune to be in NYC in September on a …
Misery of the midlist author
Many literary blogs are linking to the Salon article, “The confessions of a semi-successful author,” that tells the sad but common tale of an author who has struggled with the horror that is modern publishing. For a tale of publishing woe that has a happy ending, check out No Media Kings, where Jim Munroe explains …
And for those who prefer a more organized approach…
NewPages.com also has a lovely guide to online literary magazines. This too looks thorough. NewPages also offers reviews of literary magazines — something I’ve long wished for.
A hidden order amid the chaos
Laura Hird has perhaps the largest collection of links to known and obscure literary magazines I have seen. I can’t find any system to the placement of the mags, but perhaps there needn’t be lots of organization: Literary magazines are a pretty jumbled lot anyway. If you’re looking for new things to read or places …
It could break your heart if you really thought about it, so you should never think about it
The story “You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas” by Randa Jarrar is the winner of storySouth’s first Million Writer’s award. It was originally published in Eyeshot, and you can read it there now. The fall you moved with your family to America, you were diagnosed with TB, and the old …
Frozen River
From Parenthetical Note: Frozen River I’ve been thinking about how many times I’ve ridden the ferry since he vanished: at least twice a day on weekdays, back and forth to work, and then some on the weekends to drink Budweiser and shoot pool when I had a friend in town. Then there was that night …
Tupac caput!
From Yankee Pot Roast, Celebrity palindromes. A sampling: “Oprah deified Harpo.”
And while we’re looking at the neat and the new…
Better Non Sequitur looks pretty cool. Here’s how they describe themselves: We are a small, independent media company located in San Diego, CA. We specialize in the publication, production, and distribution of books, films, and music; but we are open to basically any artistic achievement. So, they do fun, valuable work and they live where …
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