The Spring edition of the Virginia Quarterly Review contains a gob of unrelenting lit crit about the business of literature. The following are 9 great quotes from Richard Nash’s lead essay that comprehensively covers the history of book publishing and where it’s all going. Currently, Nash is doing great work with Small Demons and Red Lemon.ade. The full VQR essay can be read here.
Posted by Jason Diamond Today we learned (via The Morning News) that Brown University and The University of Tulsa have teamed up to digitize a bunch of early 20th Century literary magazines, and believe it’s safe to say that The Modernist Journals Project is possibly the best thing we’ve seen all week. We look forward to reading “The Freewoman,” then following it up with “The New Freewoman.” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
If you actually read Playboy for the fiction, Lincoln Michael has become your savior by listing the famous skin rag at the top of his literary magazine list he’s compiled over at The Faster Times.