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Sifting through the Avalanche: An Interview with Travis Kurowski

Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine (Atticus Books, August 13, 2013) is a potpourri of voices dissecting the role of the literary magazine in the history of American writing. To gather these many voices within one book is no easy task. In the following interview, Paper Dreams book editor Travis Kurowski talks [...]

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The Book I Will Write #73: Trixie

THE BOOK I WILL WRITE by John Henry Fleming is a serial novel-in-emails about a would-be writer named John Henry Fleming who is desperate to publish a book. Fleming has been exchanging emails with an editorial assistant and a senior editor at Knopf, as well as with an agent. He’s been kicked out of his [...]

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The Book I Will Write #72: On a Macro Level, I Care

THE BOOK I WILL WRITE by John Henry Fleming is a serial novel-in-emails about a would-be writer named John Henry Fleming who is desperate to publish a book. THE BOOK I WILL WRITE is a work in progress; readers are invited to make comments and influence the outcome. Fleming has been exchanging emails with an [...]

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The Book I Will Write #71: Love is a Red Tomato

THE BOOK I WILL WRITE by John Henry Fleming is a serial novel-in-emails about a would-be writer named John Henry Fleming who is desperate to publish a book. THE BOOK I WILL WRITE is a work in progress; readers are invited to make comments and influence the outcome. Fleming has been exchanging emails with an [...]

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Loving Lit Mags: Nathan Leslie

While we fiction houses love a good book, the writing in literary magazines holds the possibility of discovering snippets of newfound talent and mainstay art. Literary magazines are like a good party host. They connect people–readers to new authors and authors to new readers. They give us a taste and leave it up to us [...]

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The Book I Will Write #70: The Botched Escape Attempt

THE BOOK I WILL WRITE by John Henry Fleming is a serial novel-in-emails about a would-be writer named John Henry Fleming who is desperate to publish a book. THE BOOK I WILL WRITE is a work in progress; readers are invited to make comments and influence the outcome. Fleming has been exchanging emails with an [...]

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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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