CONTENTS
Editor's Introduction: Hobart and the Future of Lit (Mags) By Travis Kurowski
"Through Other Eyes": An Interview with Nam Le By Editors
A Poetics of Emptiness: On the Poetry of Five Points By William Wright
Guerilla Publishing : An Interview with the Editors of The Lumberyard By Editors
The Last Movement Literary Magazine: n+1 By Travis Kurowski
A Chronicle of Slush By Thomas Washington
Ultra-Talk: Triquarterly 128 By Deja Earley
971 MENU: An Interview with Gregory Napp By Sam Ruddick
How to Start a War: McSweeney's 26 By Travis Kurowski
Art Canada: Review of Border Crossings By Nigel Beale
How to Criticize: A Writer Attends Meeka Walsh’s Workshop on Art Criticism By Nigel Beale
Cave Wall: The First Three Issues By Greg Weiss
The Gettysburg Review Celebrates Twenty Years of “Carrying Literary Elitism to New and Annoying Heights” By Heather Simons
"You Are the Bad Smell": A Fiction Excerpt from Apple Valley Review By Kathy Anderson
Letters to Luna Park: Rhett Iseman Responds to Thomas Washington; Albert Goldbarth's Brief Missive About the LP Blog; and more
FEATURED ARTIST: ROBERT GOLDWITZ Georgia—Twenty Years Ago Photograph, Leica M-4, Fugichrome original
THE NEWSREEL
New, free literary magazine for Washington, DC commuters: Bit o' Lit
Objects As Magazines / Magazines As Objects exhibition part of Art Book Triennale in Milan
New Letters & Thomas E. Kennedy win national magazine award
New UK literary magazine: Pen Pusher
Alex Clark becomes Granta's first female editor
Senator Obama's literary journal publications
Revival of Simon Gray play about starting a lit mag, The Common Pursuit
Fence magazine turns ten; interview with editor Rebecca Wolff
The Prague Revue releases vol. 8 at long last