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Magazine Review #4: McSweeney’s 36
McSweeney’s 36 can hardly be called a “magazine,” though it’s difficult to know just what to call it. A friendly human-head box filled with an assortment of printed matter would be more accurate. And...
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Magazine Review #6: Paris Review, Issue 196
The most important—and surprising—thing about this issue of The Paris Review: Roberto Bolaño’s lost novel.This is very exciting for fans of the Chilean writer (I happen to be a somewhat obsessive one)...
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Magazine Review #9: The Coffin Factory, Issue #1
The Coffin Factory bills itself as the “magazine for people who love books,” and there is no better way to describe this magazine. Based in Brooklyn, and published three times a year, The Coffin...
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Magazine Review #10: Esopus, Issue #17
Reading Esopus is more akin to walking around an art gallery than flipping through a publication. While technically a magazine, in the sense that it’s a bound stack of paper, Esopus is a carefully...
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Magazine Review #11: AWP Lit Mag Round-Up
The book fair was the highlight of AWP Chicago for me. Sure, there was the misguided, and somewhat enraging debate over John D’Agata’s The Lifespan of a Fact, or the fascinating discussion of the...
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Magazine Review #12: Radio Silence
What is the impact on the human condition when we expect to have everything we want, whenever we want it?So asks Zach Rogue in the first issue of Radio Silence. This is the question that will define my...
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