From Kenyon Review Editor David Lynn:
Kenyon Review Online will be a lively and innovative bridge between the world of the very best print literature and the emerging potential of the electronic universe. We’ll be offering innovative and delightful stories, poems, essays, memoirs, and reviews online. They will be renewed and refreshed regularly and then collected into electronic “issues” over time.
By and large, pieces appearing electronically will be distinct from work in the printed version of The Kenyon Review. I like to think of those pages as timeless. After all, readers turn to them for pleasure and enlightenment years and even decades after they first appear.
KR Online, however, will definitely be more timely, published more quickly than we’re able to do with print. And the pieces here will also be a little more experimental, a little more “out there.” Who knows?—maybe a little sassier too.
Of course, despite a new flavor, all the great writing on KRO will be held to the same high standards and expectations as The Kenyon Review. They’ll be considered as carefully, copyedited to our exacting standards. This will truly be the best writing from around the world, brought to you in this exciting new medium. After all, it’s our name, our tradition, our reputation on the line as well.
Online now: Read Bonnie Jo Campbell’s “Boar Taint” and Kevin Young’s “I Shall be Released” from the Summer 2008 issue of KR. Read new poetry from Christian Ward, an essay on poet Thom Gunn by Alfred Corn, a review of Daniel Hall’s Under Sleep by Janet Chalmers, and a review of Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir by Daniel Torday.
LILITH Magazine
Named “the best campus bookstore in the country” by Rolling Stone, Kenyon College seeks manager to begin next chapter for its campus bookstore with national reputation for its rich literary traditions. Must have experience leading and managing others, ability to network and develop marketing/event opportunities, and interest in relocating to village of Gambier, Ohio or surrounding area. Highly visible (and celebrated) position on campus requires positive, energetic and creative manager with interest in being an active part of the campus and surrounding community. Kenyon College is an EOE. Send a brief statement of interest along with resum
An interesting concept, especially in its decades-long planning and the use of sequencing in each volume. I’ve not seen a copy of this – anyone who has is welcome to comment. From the website:
A neighbor recently loaned me her copy of Atwoods’s short stories, Moral Disorder, which I am slowly making my way through – one story a night before bed: my nightcap. It is a collection claimed to be as close to autobiography as Atwood has written in her fiction. More poignant: I find it to be a reminder of what it is I admire and appreciate in a “good story.” The book, BTW, with a 2006 copyright, and a first edition, is already a victim of “discard” from a public library. *sigh* That’s another blog story…
The Oval is a brand new literary magazine from the University of Montana published by undergraduate students.
I try to explain.
Revived once when on the verge of bankruptcy, Cody’s Books of Berkeley has closed for good. There is no evidence a savior will emerge — as one did before — to save the iconic retailer.
Started in April 2008, Write the Book, hosted by author Shelagh C. Shapiro, is a series of audio podcasts available for online listening and download. These are interviews with authors, editors, agents, editors, journalists – people involved with writing and publishing.
Considered “America’s foremost literary magazine” by Ahmede Hussain of The Daily Star, Bangladesh’s largest circulating English-language newspaper, CutBank Managing Editor Brian Kevin gives an interview in which he talks about the American lit mag scene, writing personal history, and the dangerous lives of wild animals (really, it did go there…). Kevin gives insight into what CutBank looks for in their submissions, editorial decisions, and comments on writer attention to audience. Read the column in full here.
Low Rent is an independent journal from New York (though distributed beyond), published six times a year. The frequency of publication sounds ambitious for a New Lit on the Block, but the format is modest – including (so far) two stories and eight poems every issue*. I’m not sure if there are plans to increase the content, but as a bimonthly, lower quantity and higher quality would seem to be the ideal balance to keep both writers and readers coming back. For the low-rent cover price – $4.95 – it is likely to keep attracting new and repeat readers.
“The Straddler is an interdisciplinary journal of culture, publishing innovative criticism, essays, art, poetry, fiction and interviews, all of which aim to examine and transform their cultural context. Dismissing neither academically nor popularly informed criticism, The Straddler offers more than either, at present, provides.”
Editor Ange Tysdal founded In the Mist to give a voice to all the other female adventurers who need a home for their work. “In the Mist is seeking submissions for our maiden issue from women who play, or write about playing, in the mist. Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and artwork about being outside. We’re interested in anything from doing yoga in the park to walking your dog to bombing down the Anasazi Descent in Durango, Colorado or sailing from California to Hawaii in a kayak with outriggers.” Deadline: Aug. 31, 2008.