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The Sewanee Review
735 University Avenue
Sewanee, TN 37383
(for submissions)
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2715 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218-4363
(for subscriptions)
Phone: (800) 548-1784 or (931) 598-1246
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Web: www.sewanee.edu/sewanee_review
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/sewanee_review/ (for subscriptions) ISSN: 0037-3052 Founded: 1892 Issues per year: 4 Distributors: The Johns Hopkins University Press Issue price: $8 individuals/$14 institutions Average pages: 190 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $25 individuals / $20 students Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $45 (print or online) / $63 (print and online)
Publisher’s description: Take your rightful place in history and subscribe to the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America. The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is the home of this venerable quarterly, begun in 1892. The Sewanee Review is devoted to American and British fiction, poetry, and reviews, as well as essays in criticism and reminiscence. We invite you to take hold of the direct literary line to Flannery O’Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Hart Crane, Anne Sexton, Harry Crews, and Fred Chappell—not to mention, Andre Dubus and Cormac McCarthy, whose first stories were published in The Sewanee Review. Open this pale blue cover and you might find a chest of jewels or a powder keg. Each issue is a brilliant seminar, an unforgettable dinner party, an all-night swap of stories and passionate stances.
Recent issues:
The first issue of the new decade (118, Winter 2010) features a collection of prose excursions ranging from Robert Benson and Peter Makuck on hunting and trapping; Robert Lacy and Ed Minus on westerns; and Sam Pickering on essay collections Adrienne Rich, Kathleen Rooney, Lynn Bloom, William Kloefkorn, Jeffrey Hammond, Stephen Miller, and others. Prose by Wendell Berry includes a tribute to James Baker Hall and an essay on religion and science. Paul Lindholdt contributes an essay titled "Genius Loci," ostensibly on the nuthatch.
In celebration of poetry and poets, the Fall 2009 issue will feature an essay by Wendell Berry on Hayden Carruth alongside several unpublished poems by the late Mr. Carruth. The poets discussed include Dante, Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Penn Warren, along with an essay by Fred Chappell on David Bottoms. This issue also includes new poetry by R. T. Smith, as well as an essay by John Haines.
Summer 2009 - This is our most ambitious fiction issue ever with nine short stories, including work by Marlin Barton, John J. Clayton, Giles Fowler, Mairi MacInnes, Nancy Huddleston Packer, and Gladys Swan, along with our newest contributors, Brooks Wright, Jacob White and Jean Ross Justice. In the spirit of great fiction, we offer four tributes to that great man of American letters, John Updike; Robert Buffington revaluates Conrad; and Warner Berthoff compares translations of Kafka's final work.