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Literary MagNet
by Travis Kurowski
May/June 2013
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Booth, West Branch, and Pleiades.
Literary MagNet
by Travis Kurowski
March/April 2013
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features N+1, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Witness.
University Presses Feeling the Pinch
by Kevin Nance
November/December 2012
As financial hardships continue to affect universities and colleges across the country, an increasing number of university presses are facing the threat of closures—and some aren't going down without a fight.
Lena Dunham's 3.7 Million Dollar Book Deal, National Storytelling Festival, and More
by Evan Smith Rakoff
HBO's Girls creator Lena Dunham's first collection of essays sold to Random House for a reported 3.7 million dollars; Jason Diamond reports on attending a sold out reading by Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City; the University of Missouri changed its decision to close the University of Missouri Press; and other news.
The Earnings of Self-Published Authors, University of Missouri Press Is Closing, and More
by Staff
A comprehensive survey of self-published authors reveals surprising findings, today's writers feel less compelled to look to the past, and today is Towel Day.
Iowa City
by Jan Weissmiller
Before heading to the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, held throughout June and July, get acquainted with the reading series, bars, landmarks, and people—including our guide Jan Weissmiller, co-owner of indie bookseller Prairie Lights Books—of designated City of Literature Iowa City.
Q&A: Raz Looks for Poetry of the West
by Catherine Richardson
September/October 2011
Newly settled into her position as editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, Hilda Raz spoke about her hopes for the series.
A Tough Transition for TriQuarterly
by Kevin Nance
January/February 2010
The latest casualty in the ongoing siege of academic presses and literary magazines in the economic downturn was recorded last fall when Northwestern University announced plans to end the forty-five-year run of its prize-winning journal TriQuarterly as a print publication. After the magazine's final print issue this spring, it will become an online-only, student-run publication.
School’s in Recession
by Kevin Nance
November/December 2009
For seventy-five years Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge, has been home to two of the country's most storied literary institutions, LSU Press and the Southern Review. But prestige was not enough to save either one from a 20 percent cut in university subsidy in July.
Q&A: Riker Rides Dalkey Into the Future
by Kevin Nance
September/October 2009
Associate director Martin Riker speaks about developments at Dalkey Archive, the independent press that recently announced a new distribution deal with Norton and the launch of a new European fiction anthology this fall.