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Writing Send submissions to: Editorial DepartmentThe Sun 107 N. Roberson St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 We publish essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. 40th Anniversary: The New York Books Canon New York is a hypertextualized city. By 6 a.m., our commuters have smudged more words off their papers than most cities read all day. How to even begin identifying a canon? While reading, I plotted candidates along two mystical axes: one of all-around literary merit, and the other of “New Yorkitude”—the degree to which a book allows itself to obsess over the city. Robert Caro’s The Power Broker just about maxes out both axes; others perseverate so memorably on smaller aspects of city life that they had to be included. There were, of course, regrettable omissions: Jimmy Breslin is a quintessential New York writer whose main strength is not books; Puzo’s Godfather was better as a movie.

Evergreen Review - Home Let me begin this ?Letter from the New Editor? by remembering and saluting Barney Rosset, the founder of . There would be no Evergreen or Grove Press without him; but it goes much further: There wouldn? Books to Read to Be Considered Well Read Contemporary or classic novels, plays, poem and short story anthologies, that any serious reader should read at least ones in his or her life. 14,133 users · 167,024 views Required scores: 1, 19, 28, 38, 53 Writer's Guidelines SubTerrain » about subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Submissions must be previously unpublished material. (Note maximum number of submissions per issue in General Guidelines below.) subTerrain welcomes submissions from both emerging and established authors. We are happy to consider work from all corners of the identity spectrum, including works by underrepresented writers, including but not limited to writers who are indigenous, of colour, immigrants, women, LGBTQI+, low-income, no-income, and writers with disabilities.

Recipes for the hot days Wow. When I first decided to host an event, I convinced myself that I'd be satisfied with even ten entries. Never in a million years would I have expected 64 of you to participate! Harvard Classics Reading Guide - My Harvard Classics Mazzini labored for the freedom of Italy, but was exiled. Byronand Goethe also battled for liberty. Mazzini wrote an essayin which he compared Byron to a soaring eagle and Goethe toa contented stork. Warned by Hector's Ghost In the dead of night Hector's ghost appeared to warn Aeneasof the impending doom to come upon the walled city of Troy.Aeneas lifted his aged father on his back and, taking his son bythe hand, sought safety in flight.

Best Online Literary Magazines This is a rewrite of our Best Online Literary Magazines list. This list along with our Top 50 literary magazine list has gotten a lot of attention. Atlantic Monthly wrote in an issue last year that they hoped “rank and file” lists of magazines wasn’t a trend that would continue. Either Commit Suicide or Start Giggling: An Interview with Andrei Codrescu Interview by Sophie Erskine. 3:AM: Andrei, thanks so much for agreeing to answer my questions. I hope they won’t be too stupid. You became an American citizen in 1981 but had grown up in Romania. Do you think this sort of culturally-mixed background is helpful to creative individuals? For example, does it mean you can understand different points of view better than if you had only lived in one country?

The Walrus The Walrus launched in September 2003 with a straightforward mandate: to be a national general interest magazine about Canada and its place in the world. We are committed to presenting the best work by the best writers and artists from Canada and elsewhere, on a wide range of topics for curious readers. If you are a writer interested in contributing to The Walrus, please read the magazine and follow our submission guidelines. Advertisers and partners can find dates and rates on our advertising page.

Donald Barthelme’s Syllabus There was a time when I fought against an impatience with reading, concealing, with partisanship, the fissures in my education. I confused difficulty with duplicity, and that which didn’t come easily, I often scorned. Then, in my last year of college in Gainesville, Florida, I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students. Barthelme’s only guidance, passed on by Padgett Powell, one of Barthelme’s former students at the University of Houston and my teacher at the time, was to attack the books “in no particular order, just read them,” which is exactly what I, in my confident illiteracy, resolved to do.