Ten Questions for Justin Jannise
“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse
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The Written Image: The African Svelte
Writer and editor Daniel Menaker compiles over one hundred amusing verbal blunders in his new book, The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
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Wood Coin Magazine: Art & Lit
Year Founded:
2008
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:
Greater than 50
Issues per Year:
Varies.
Circulation:
5,000 to 10,000
Subscription Price:
Online.
Issue Price:
Free.
The issues are cohesive; the whole of the magazine is comprehensive.
Submit anything, from new to almost-forgotten, previously published if noted in an email, or rejected for whatever reason from other venues. I do work with talented writers if a theme or plot or character can be drawn out and refined for publication in Wood Coin. The magazine is uncensored as of January 2018, yet extreme literary or artistic stunts need to coincide with US obscenity laws.
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Can Flarf Ever Be Taken Seriously?
Almost a decade after its creation, the experimental poetry movement Flarf—in which poets prowl the Internet using random word searches, e-mail the bizarre results to one another, then distill the newly found phrases into poems that are often as disturbing as they are hilarious—is showing signs of having cleared a spot among the ranks of legitimate art forms.
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Audiobook History, James Patterson Seeks Cowriter, and More
Westworld and writer’s block; topical book F*CK YOU, 2016 comes out tomorrow; Transit Press founders on publishing works in translation; and other news.
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Johnny Cash’s Unpublished Poems, a Defense of the Comic Novel, and More
Authors Guild offers new Emerging Writer Membership; authors’ favorite scary stories; the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin; and other news.
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Poetic Pilgrimages, Nobel Prize Betting Breakdown, and More
Funny books recommended by funny writers; mislabeling story collections as novels; poetry and the urban experience; and other news.
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In Defense of Clichés, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Revisited, and More
Famous writers compose an Exquisite Corpse; a tourist is accidentally locked inside a London bookstore; an essay on taboos and creativity; and other news.
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Dallas High School Bans Books, the Problem with Sentimentality, and More
John Green campaigns for clean water in Ethiopia; J. R. R. Tolkein’s poem that inspired The Lord of the Rings; the inaugural Slate/Whiting Second Novel List; and other news.
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Reading Print Versus Digital Increases Comprehension, Amazon Partners With Purdue, and More
OverDrive launches Read an E-book Day; traveling vicariously through books; Anne Sexton's summer bikini tips; and other news.
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