Just around the time I stopped posting here last month, news about VQR managing editor Kevin Morrisey’s suicide began to take a strange and I think unhealthy turn. [Read more]

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For the past year we have been asking readers, writers, and editors to chime in about Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in the independent presses. [Read more]

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Today’s digest is devoted to the memory of Kevin Morrissey, the 52-year-old managing editor of Virginia Quarterly Review who took his own life this past Friday. [Read more]

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Did discussion of The Paris Review un-acceptance business get a bit too feverish last week on the internet? Perhaps. [Read more]

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Gulf Coast lit mag from Houston is running a “Gulf Coast Clean-up” subscription drive. That’s right: two birds, one stone. Give money to Gulf Coast clean up efforts and get some great reading. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 7/13
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This strange business at Mississippi Review—a magazine described by Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Charles Simic, and others as one of the best mags in the country—has been lost in all the hullabaloo going on at The University of Southern Mississippi, host of the magazine. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Faves, 7/11
   Checking in with SF & Fantasy
   Fictionaut Five: Marcy Dermansky

Tin House-gate is how it has been described, the topic of conversation dominating lit mag chatter this past weekend . [Read more]

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This past Sunday I was a part of a literary magazine extravaganza at Greenlight Bookstore, a new bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. The bookstore hosted readings by Electric Literature, A Public Space, BOMB, and Armchair/Shotgun, who I was there reading for. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Kyle Minor

The second issue of Corium is out, with new work from Gary Percesepe, Jenny Bitner , Roxane Gay, and B.J. Hollars among others. Read Marcelle Heath on Corium‘s March debut. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Jensen Beach

Summer is a typically slow time for lit mags — but here are some things you might not want to miss. [Read more]

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