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
LUNA PARK 1 The Premiere Issue of Luna Park, a Quarterly and Occasional Review of Literary Magazines
Interview with editors of the handmade literary wonderland, Hootenanny By Editors
Mississippi's own lit mag extravaganza, Big Muddy By Lynn Watson
Gary Percesepe on reading fiction for Antioch Review By Gary Percesepe
Fiction heavyweight Benjamin Percy talks with Luna Park By Editors
Going graphic: Ninth Letter's stretching of the lit mag form By Britt Harraway
Bobby Seale (yes, of the Black Panthers) at Antioch College By Gary Percesepe
A lit mag junkie tries to make sense of the largest literary event of the year—AWP By Thomas Washington
Ruminate: epiphany and the contemporary Christian By Boeaux Boudreaux
Editors of Bound Off speak about audio literature online By Kelly Shriver
Fence breaks conventions of the literary now By Sam Ruddick
The new poetic experiment going on at Rattle By Greg Weiss
Damselfly's editor on becoming part of the literary known By Jennifer Taylor
From the Newsstands: stunning excerpts from new issues of Opium, ZYZZYVA, Mississippi Review, Cider Press Review, and Sentence
FEATURED ARTIST: ROBERT GOLDWITZ Georgia—Twenty Years Ago Photograph, Leica M-4, Fugichrome original
THE NEWSREEL
Ted Solotaroff, founder and editor of New American Review, has died.
Mahmoud Darwish, poet and activist, has died.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died.
Alma Newhouse steps in as new editor of Nextbook.
New Philadephia literary magazine: First City Review [link to the magazine here]
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