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The Last Movement Literary Magazine: n+1
“To start a little magazine, then—to commit yourself to making an immutable, finite set of perfect-bound pages that will appear, typos and all, every month or two, or six, or whenever, even if you are...
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A Chronicle of Slush
A friend has been firing anxious emails to me since mid-December. She’s looking for advice and a sympathetic ear on the plight of her manuscript. She says her fiction submission has been stuck in the...
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Ultra-Talk: Triquarterly 128
TriQuarterly 128 In Triquarterly’s issue 128, the voice of Tony Hoagland’s poems sounds so much like Mark Halliday’s that I got them confused: I could have sworn I was still reading Hoagland when I had...
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971 MENU: An Interview with Gregory Napp
Since its launch in September of 2006, 971 MENU has become one of the most dynamic venues for short fiction on the web. The details are pretty straightforward: the magazine publishes stories of 971...
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How to Start a War: McSweeney’s 26
“So I came back a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing Afghanistan. I said, ‘Are we still going to war with Iraq?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s worse than that.’ He reached over on his desk. He...
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Review of Border Crossings Magazine
Border Crossings 104 Whenever I go to Europe I make a point of picking up a copy of The Economist at the airport and reading it from cover-to-cover on the plane. I have to if I want to keep up with my...
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How to Criticize: A Writer Attends Meeka Walsh’s Workshop on Art Criticism
Border Crossings 100 Her mother was happiest in the Arctic. She, on the other hand, seems most content reading and writing about art, happiest—if there must be a place—in the pages of an arts magazine...
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Cave Wall: The First Three Issues
Let us get to the best first of Cave Wall’s winter 2007 issue: A. Van Jordan’s “The First Law of Motion.” Jordan writes lyric poems that bruise you. His semi-narrative style doesn’t lend itself to...
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The Gettysburg Review Celebrates Twenty Years of “Carrying Literary Elitism...
Spring 2008 issue of Gettysburg Review In the spring of 1987, just a few months before the debut of The Gettysburg Review, founding editor Peter Stitt declared his intention of creating a literary...
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Excerpt from “You Are the Bad Smell”
The following excerpt is from a short story originally published in the The Apple Valley Review, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2008). The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. It...
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