Author: Abby Hess
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Summer Lovin’: Doting on Literary Magazines
Last fall, we asked you for your most memorable rejection letters and you delivered. This summer, we want to know more about the literary magazines that inspire you. Where do you send submissions and why? What do literary magazines do that impress you and which ones are actively doing it? The point: To spotlight and…
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Loving Lit Mags: Steven Gillis
In August, Atticus Books will publish Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine, the first full-length book on the history of the small magazine since 1978 (The Little Magazine in America). But before that momentous event, it is only polite to introduce you to the literary magazines that most impress us —…
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Six Degrees Left: Tightening the Bond Between Libraries and Small Presses, Part One
It’s difficult to find small press or independently published books. Shocker, right? We know it. It’s no wonder either; without the giant budgets for publicity and distribution, or household name authors getting movie deals, there’s little chance of getting onto the bestseller lists or the shelves at the front of the chain bookstores. The…
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Countdown to An End to All Things: What to Do
An End to All Things Countdown: 2 DAYS Time is going fast. In light of the 2012 Mayan Prophecy, it turns out that we have but a short time to prepare for the end. Procrastination is not recommended. That is why each week leading up to our collective doom we will post short excerpts…
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Countdown to An End to All Things: What to Expect
An End to All Things Countdown: 5 DAYS In light of the 2012 Mayan Prophecy, it turns out that we have but a short time to prepare for the end. Procrastination is not recommended. That is why each week leading up to our collective doom we will post short excerpts from stories in Jared…
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Countdown to An End to All Things: What To Stock Up On
An End to All Things Countdown: 11 DAYS In light of the 2012 Mayan Prophecy, it turns out that we have but a short time to prepare for the end. Procrastination is not recommended. That is why each week leading up to our collective doom we will post short excerpts from stories in Jared Yates…
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A Countdown to An End to All Things
I shut off the engine and looked at Jess. Her face was wet and all of her make-up had smeared and run. I looked at her and she looked at me. Those people were picking it up at that point, really playing and carrying on as loud as they could, the tempo gathering steam. They…
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Fighting the Fairytale
I am sorry Anne Frank. I don’t know you. I’ve never taken the time. In seventh grade I wasn’t in the English class that read your diary, but my friend Alyssa told me about it. She said you hid in an attic until you were caught at the end. I wouldn’t know what “getting caught”…
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Let’s Get to Know Each Other
In my house we’ve got an “orphanage lamp.” Almost holy, it’s made of stained glass and turns on with a spin dial attached to the cord. It was bought around the time I was four, and since then my brother and I have known that if anything should happen to that lamp—a bump, a tap,…
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Backlist of the Bookshelf
Buying a book or three or four at a time is an optimistic exercise. Carrying them stacked against my chest to the register, I like to picture where I will read them. House of Sand and Fog at night huddled in the corner of my sectional at home under rain soaked skylights. Three Junes…