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January 10, 2008

>The Writer’s Life

>Check out this realistic short film by Roger Morris: The Writer’s Life. That’s how it goes some days.
January 9, 2008

>Review Americana

>Review Americana, published by the Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, is a new-to-me magazine that looks very good. I’ve read some…
January 9, 2008

>Banned Books

>Somehow I missed Banned Books Week 2007, but I’ll try to make up for it with this post. Check out the American Library Association‘s…
January 8, 2008

>Literature vs. Capitalism

>In the February 2008 issue of Harpers, Ursula LeGuin takes on the corporate publishers and bookstore chains (“Staying Awake: Notes on the alledged decline…
January 5, 2008

>The Year of a Million Words

>Huh? There’s this guy – a Kiwi in Scotland by the name of Craig Cliff – who plans to write One Million words in…
January 5, 2008

>Congratulations, it’s a F-log!

>The folks at Fence were kind enough to let me know that they’ve added a LitMagBlog feature to their website. It looks like they’re…
January 4, 2008

>The Short Review

>Here’s a magazine/website with an original premise: reviews of short story collections and anthologies. Here’s how the founder describes the project: The Short Review…
January 3, 2008

>Virginia Festival of the Book

>VaBook is coming! The Virginia Festival of the Book 2008 will be March 26-30 and it looks like a great lineup. The preliminary schedule…
January 3, 2008

>"A Bright Shining Lie"

>I’ve been hearing nothing but wonderful things about Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke and the only thing that’s prevented me from reading it already…
January 1, 2008

>NaJuReMoNoMo

> January is National Just Read More Novels Month. I bet you didn’t know that, but it’s true. First I read about it at…