This heralds the beginning of a new feature here on BookFox, one in which I field search engine queries that have come to my site. (For those of you who don’t know, yes, I can see what people typed into Google in order to find my site). Most of the searches are directed correctly to […]
Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy points us toward this video of Mary Gaitskill on “Front Porch,” which is a rising star among the online-only lit journals. I’ve been reading a new quarterly from Britain called The Drawbridge. Each issue is themed (Memory, Risk, Rumour) and sports such luminaries as Terry Eagleton, J.G. Ballard, and Etgar […]
So I’ve been reading The New Yorker summer fiction edition and also checking out the authors slated for publication in the Atlantic fiction issue, and am struck by the differences. The New Yorker has an all-star line-up of writers, of which I recognized every one: Vladimir Nabokov, Annie Proulx, Mary Gaitskill. Then also some nonfiction […]
So recently I’ve been seeing a number of publications that seek out pre-published material. Think of it as a second chance for your piece to find an audience. Here are three different magazines focusing on round two. Second Writes is a new literary journal specializing in material already published. The publishers of the journal are […]
Interview with Jeanne Leiby from Sam Armstrong on Vimeo. I talked with Jeanne Leiby, editor of the Southern Review, about a weak-kneed and shaky-voiced solicitation of Philip Levine, Bret Lott’s aesthetic changes to the journal, a special issue about the circus, and cultivating the emerging writers of this generation. Interviewer: John Matthew Fox Videographer: Joel […]
[[ THIS IS THE 2008 LIST. GO TO THE UPDATED 2015 LIST. ]] Here are the top twelve online literary journals, at least according to the number of Million Writers Award nominations each journal has received in the last five years. Eclectica (31 nominations) Pindeldyboz (26) Agni (16) Strange Horizons (16) Word Riot (16) Narrative […]
Glimmer Train offers a wonderful essay by Allison Amend in which she details the many hurdles she had to leap to publish her short story collection, “Things That Pass for Love,” now slated for publication by OV Books in October 2008. (It has a great cover image) It’s also a testament to the difficulty of […]
Thanks to all my Book Expo video viewers — it was fun to do, and I am currently planning how I want it to develop. I haven’t written up half of the stuff I was planning on, but I think I’ll let my contribution to BEA remain in video form. My one last piece is […]
BOOK EXPO: Interview with McSweeney’s Publishing from Dalmatianjaws on Vimeo. We discussed McSweeney standards such as the DVD quarterly Wholphin and the 826 writing centers, but also the glories of a bathroom book that lists all known of heavy metal bands, the benefits of having a tent at Book Expo, and the problem with McSweeney’s […]
BOOK EXPO: Interview with Kelly Link from Doublefaced J on Vimeo. There are a few more videos I’ll be posting during the week, so check in periodically for more BEA action.
