Okla Elliott: What is the process by which your journal’s staff selects a piece for publication? Jodee Stanley: At Ninth Letter we have a fairly large editorial staff, with three faculty editors for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as several graduate students who work as readers and assistant editors. The selection process is pretty much the same […]
Interviews
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – HOW DO AN INCREASING NUMBER OF LIT MAGS DEFEND THEIR RELEVANCE?
Okla Elliott: The United States is unique in that we have literally thousands of literary journals, whereas countries like England or Germany have only a few dozen, and some countries have fewer than ten. Now, the circulation on some of these tend to beat ours, but not always. So, what is the effect of the massive […]
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – WHY DO EDITORS EDIT?
Okla Elliott: I feel most editors get into the editing business at least in part to correct certain wrongs they see in contemporary literature. There is of course the love of literature in general that brings us to this work, but what kinds of literature do you see as needing more airtime and how do you […]
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – WHAT HAPPENS TO LIT MAGS IN A RECESSION?
Okla Elliott: Everyone is talking about the current economic situation in the US. How is this affecting literary journals, and what are the solutions you’ve found? Jodee Stanley (Ninth Letter): I think the economy has got us all biting our nails, looking over our shoulders. I’m interested to hear what independent journals have to say about the […]
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING (full roundtable discussion)
GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING What happens to lit mags in a recession? moderated by Okla Elliott responses by Jacob Knabb, Ben George, Aaron Burch, Raymond Hammond, Anne McPeak, and Jodee Stanley Okla Elliott: Everyone is talking about the current economic situation in the US. How is this affecting literary journals, and what are the […]
GNOMIC SAVIORS: Editors on Editing, a roundtable discussion with Jacob Knabb, Ben George, Anne McPeak, Raymond Hammond, Jodee Stanley, Aaron Burch, and Okla Elliott
Read the roundtable discussion in its entirety, or read individual sections below. WHAT HAPPENS TO LIT MAGS IN A RECESSION? WHY DO EDITORS EDIT? HOW DO AN INCREASING NUMBER OF LIT MAGS DEFEND THEIR RELEVANCE? HOW DO EDITORS SELECT WORK FOR PUBLICATION? WHAT IS THE PLACE OF POLITICS IN LIT MAGS? HOW CAN LIT MAGS INCREASE […]
Rana Dasgupta interviewed by Maya Kóvskaya: CARBON The Residue of Life and Daydreams
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as “the most unexpected and original Indian writer of his generation,” critically acclaimed writer and artist Rana Dasgupta made his debut on the international cultural scene in 2005 with his first novel, Tokyo Cancelled. This “story cycle” of post-modern folktales explored the ruptures, dislocations, multiplicities, and yearnings of our globalized times, with […]
SOME DARKER BOUQUETS: A ROUNDTABLE
Note: The following letter responds to an editorial comment and three reviews by Jason Guriel, published in the March, 2009 issue of Poetry. Because portions of this letter were initially posted at Poetry’s online version, it could not be included in the print version of the magazine. In any case, the issues broached here regarding practices of reviewing in […]
Matt Gonzalez interviewed by Okla Elliott: ON THE STREET OF CROCODILES
1. As a person who has held elected office as a Green Party member and who ran as an Independent for VP in 2008, what do you see as the biggest challenges third parties face in this country? And what do you see as the best course of action for people who are interested in […]
David-Baptiste Chirot interviewed by Jared Schickling: FINDING THE ROOOT – 66 DAYS WITH DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT
[extract] this takes place by becoming aware of the flows of time seen in the dust motes in a light coming through the drawn venetian blinds of late winter’s afternoon—and mixing with these whorls of smoke from slowly burning cigarettes—if one begins to look with the sense of time being what one is seeing—then one finds […]
