Contents
Preface / Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz
Introduction: A Decade or So of Little Magazines: One Reader’s Perspective / Jefferey Lependorf
Part 1: The Editor as Visionary
This History of BOMB / Betsy Sussler
The Life of Ontario Review (1974– 2008) / Greg Johnson
The Word Sacred Is Not Misplaced / Dave Eggers
On n+1 / Keith Gessen
Part 2: Politics, Culture, and the Little Magazine
Callaloo: A Journal of Necessity / Charles Henry Rowell
Critical Thinking from Women / Amy Hoffman
The Bitch Interview / Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler - As interviewed by Joanne Diaz
The World Doesn’t Stop for Derek Walcott, or: An Exchange between Coeditors / Gerald Maa and Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis
Part 3: Innovation and Experimentation: The Literary Avant-Garde
Exquisite Corpse / Andrei Codrescu
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E / Bruce Andrews
Publishing Is Personal / Rebecca Wolff
This Being 2015 / Ander Monson
Part 4: The University Magazine
War of the Words: Fighting for a Journal and a Genre / Lee Gutkind
Decent Company between the Covers / Cara Blue Adams
Alaska Quarterly Review and the Literary Tonic / Ronald Spatz
Making a Living and a Life in Little Magazines / Carolyn Kuebler
Part 5: Today’s Magazines and the Future
About At Length / Jonathan Farmer
Summoning the Bard: The Twenty-First-Century Literary Magazine on the Web / Rebecca Morgan Frank
The Future of the Gatekeepers / Jane Friedman
Poetry Magazine: On Making It New / Don Share
Contributors
Index