Category Archives: atlantic
In the Penny Press! The 2009 Atlantic Fiction Issue!
The annual Atlantic Fiction Issue is here, and the bullshit starts before you even turn to Page 1. Right there on the cover of this special issue dedicated, according to the opening statement by the Editors, to the contention that “imaginative literature matters,” there’s a drawing of man standing by a fireside reading his Kindle. [...]
Fiction in the Atlantic! 2008!
In a famous recent editorial decision, the venerable Atlantic magazine stopped publishing a new short story every month. At the time, the usual blather was floated as justification, but even so, it was impossible not to read in the decision some kind of comment on the state of the American short story – either the [...]
In the Penny Press!
Surprises aplenty in this week’s Penny Press, and almost all of them the good kind! For instance, it’s always nice when a writer you like, while writing about something else entirely, makes an aside you enthusiastically agree with; Stephen Jay Gould used to do it with comforting regularity, and in the latest issue of the [...]
The Penny Press! Atlantic and the TLS!
The prestigious old Atlantic Monthly (of late cravenly decamped from its home ancestral home of Boston) recently acquired our very own semi-feral super-genius Elmo as a subscriber, so their editorial board will no doubt have to look a little sharper in the months to come (we here at Stevereads are except from such precautions, since [...]
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