Everybody should read this great piece on online publishing by Sean Bishop, Better’s founding editor.
On Online Publishing
Covering Anna Karenina
We care quite a bit about book covers here at The Millions, hence our recent rounds of cover-judging. To honor the hundredth anniversary of Tolstoy's death, Flavorwire has compiled a selection of Anna Karenina's many covers, and opportunities for judgement abound.
The Deepest Feeling
“Love / is the only fortress / strong enough to trust to.” Mary-Kay Wilmers for the London Review of Books reviews Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore. In the book, Moore’s slightly-bizarre domestic life is examined with fairness and honesty alongside her impressive body of work. If poetry is your thing, check out our On Poetry column for more.
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There’s always funny in the banana stand.
Rolling Stone asked David Cross about Arrested Development's Netflix relaunch and he says it's "audacious and amazing."
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Four Easy Steps
1. Research a social issue. 2. Start a blog. 3. ??? 4. Become a public intellectual! Or not.
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Watching A Wrinkle in Time
The movie adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time premiered this week. Before or after you see the movie (there are some spoilers if you haven't seen it or read the book) read this essay by Alanna Bennett on the simple, but revolutionary power of the story and Ava DuVernay's book-to-screen vision.
“There was a sort of magic down here.”
Moving from New York to Baton Rouge might sound extreme to some, but not to Emily Nemens. Over at Lean In, she explains how she worked her way up from graduate assistant to Southern Review coeditor.
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I read this post earlier this morning. I admit, I was a little reluctant to accept online journals/publishing a few years ago. I have come to realize, though, that online journals is the way publishing is going, whether some of us like it or not. There are some excellent online journals popping up these days. And, as the article mentions, in these hard economic times, it is preferred.
The note before the post was a little….strange. Ploughshares “unpublished” the essay? Wonder what that was about?