Tag: Steven Gillis
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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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The Benefit of Sleep: An Excerpt from The Law of Strings
Mr. White sleeps in boxers and a t-shirt once ivory but now gone gray. We who are his friends have tried to wake him, but he is coy, retreats into deep R.E.M., dreams in alpha waves firing at 10 cycles per second. With his phone shut off, and curtains drawn, he ignores the knocks at his door and the…