Alaska Quarterly Review and the Literary Tonic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Introduction: A Decade or So of Little Magazines: One Reader’s Perspective 1
6. Part 1: The Editor as Visionary
7. This History of BOMB 19
8. The Life of Ontario Review (1974– 2008) 28
9. The Word Sacred Is Not Misplaced 35
10. On n+1 38
11. Part 2: Politics, Culture, and the Little Magazine
12. Callaloo: A Journal of Necessity 51
13. Critical Thinking from Women 65
14. The Bitch Interview 70
15. The World Doesn’t Stop for Derek Walcott, or: An Exchange between Coeditors 83
16. Part 3: Innovation and Experimentation: The Literary Avant- Garde
17. Exquisite Corpse 97
18. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 106
19. Publishing Is Personal 124
20. This Being 2015 130
21. Part 4: The University Magazine
22. War of the Words: Fighting for a Journal and a Genre 143
23. Decent Company between the Covers 155
24. Alaska Quarterly Review and the Literary Tonic 166
25. Making a Living and a Life in Little Magazines 175
26. Part 5: Today’s Magazines and the Future
27. About At Length 189
28. Summoning the Bard: The Twenty- First- Century Literary Magazine on the Web 198
29. The Future of the Gatekeepers 209
30. Poetry Magazine: On Making It New 218
31. Contributors 225
32. Index 231