An anthology documenting the history of literary magazines from letterpress to digital formats, with essays and interviews on the significance of magazines in American literary culture. Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal (2014) and a Foreword IndieFab Award (2013).
“[A] history and a how-to that illuminates the influence, delights, problems, and engaging idiosyncrasies of these important magazines in American literary culture.”
— Publishers Weekly
“The literary magazine has endured a century of change: from the need to advertise and have serious financial backing to succeed, to the conflict of defining serious fiction, to the ironies of publishing in print versus online. But it has endured. The progression shows that the conversation isn't over yet. Travis Kurowski's work succeeds in bringing the past, the present, and the future of the literary magazine together in such a manner in which readers and writers alike will remember the purpose of all of this in the first place.”
— The Summerset Review
“Quite simply, this book is a goldmine.”
— Erika Dreifus
“The wonderful world of literary magazines just got more wonderful.”
— The Review Review
