THE QUARTERLY

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

 


 
 
THE CARNIVAL

LUNA PARK 1
The Premiere Issue of Luna Park, a Quarterly and Occasional Review of Literary Magazines


CONTENTS

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


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