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In The Margins E14: Small, the Next Big

In this episode we speak with Jeffrey Lependorf, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses' Executive Director. A service organization to independent literary publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose, CMLP provides guidance on the backstage work of American literature. Join us as we learn about the organization, trends in the industry, guidance on submitting your writing and more. [Read More]

Winter Time Had Finally Got Them All (In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass)

NYRB Classics brings back one of the great works of American fiction, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass. [Read More]
All This Was A Long Time Ago (What I Want to Tell Goes Like This: Stories by Matt Rader)

Matt Rader's debut story collection splits its attention between early twentieth century labor disputes and modern-day Vancouver Island. [Read More]

A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)

July 22, 2017

The plot of John Williams’ 1965 novel, Stoner (NYRB Classics, 2006): Young man becomes assistant professor at University of Missouri, lives unhappy life, has undistinguished career, dies. You can hardly be blamed if you don’t find this particularly enticing, but make no mistake: Stoner (last name of the protagonist—sorry to disappoint) is a work of almost unbearable beauty. [Read More]
I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual Bove, trans. Alyson Waters)
So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter, trans. Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore)
The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)

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