The Straddler :: NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
The Straddler
Email: info[at]thestraddler[dot]com
Web: www.thestraddler.com
Frequency: semiannual Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 4 months Payment: Not as of now (see website) Contests: (see website)
Publisher's Description: The Straddler is an interdisciplinary organization founded with the intent of examining and transforming culture. Looking as much to the past as to the present for insights into an age where repetition and cultural diminishment are the norm, The Straddler invites its readers to sift through illuminated bits of Western and American culture. Pieced together, we believe these fragments offer images of the potential for a more dignified cultural future.
Recent issues:
The Fall 2011 issue features Kazys Varnelis: Network Culture; Dan Stageman: "These Illegals"; Kim Ghattas of the BBC reports from the State Department, remembers Beirut; Elizabeth Murphy on Occupy Wall Street; Dan Monaco: Hyman Minsky; Elizabeth Wray's Hungarian; William O'Hara: The War on Contingency; Raquel Fernández on Culture and Economics; Coal Comforts; Poetry: Christopher Mulrooney, Gerald Yelle, Susan Marshall; Bonnie Costello's Hummingbird Fable
The Spring/Summer 2011 issue features Interviews: "What's Natural? Peter Temin in Conversation with The Straddler"; "Setting the Rules: in Conversation with Dean Baker"; Essays: "Words Have Always Taken Over: Foraging Among the Memories of Sylvia Plath" by Sarah Schwartz; "Nothing's Been Authenticated: The Double Hustle of Rick Ross" by Marty Brown; "Coal-Getting" by The Straddler; Art: "Union by Design" by Atosha McCaw; Fiction: "Treatment" by Peter Davis (Academy Award-winning director of Hearts and Minds); Poetry: Quinn White, Leonard Gontarek, Katherine Holmes; Plus: The Cerebral Variety Circus & "Trousers" by Dan Monaco.