Just released: the latest issue of DIAGRAM, which is consistently one of the most interesting magazines in publication. Coming soon: Hobart‘s 15th issue, which is focused on “Hotel Culture,” and will hit shelves in February/March. (Although you can preorder a copy now.)
Lit Mag Happenings
An Unusual Inheritance
"They were still dressed for the funeral when their inheritance showed up." Granta magazine has a new short story by Amelia Gray, whose literary rise we considered back in 2012.
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Seeking Order in Chaos
"Writing an autobiography was therapeutic and traumatic at times, but unlike the novel it continues its therapies and trauma long after I’ve written it." Laura van den Berg interviews Porochista Khakpour about the differences between novels and memoirs, structure, and Khakpour's upcoming memoir, Sick. (Sick is one of our most anticipated June releases).
Twitter: like a teenager high on Valium
This week, David Mitchell (author of Cloud Atlas and the forthcoming The Bone Clocks) is releasing a new short story over 280 tweets (which you can read here). Form follows content, he explains, since his narrator is a teenager high on his mother's Valium. Mitchell joins good company: Teju Cole, Junot Diaz, and other notables have tried their hand with this strange new form. Pair with: a stroll down memory lane with some beloved authors' very first tweets and their best.
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Epic Pizza Delivery From Anonymous
Cole Stryker's Epic Win for Anonymous hasn't garnered him a lot of positive feedback from members of the infamous image board 4chan. It did, however, result in lots of pizzas being delivered to Housing Works' Bookstore on the night of its launch party. The author later did an "Ask Me Anything" session with Reddit and explained the pizza delivery among other things. What do you think will happen now that two authors have announced a forthcoming book on Anonymous itself?
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Fiction Contest at Columbia
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art has a fiction, nonfiction and poetry contest going on that pays $500 to first prize winners. Joshua Ferris is judging the fiction entries. Deadline is 1/1/2010.
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It’s Not “Roses Are Red?”
What's the most quoted line of poetry? The answer, according to Google and M.H. Forsyth, may surprise you.
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A Bookish Father’s Day
Looking for the perfect book for Father's Day, but didn't find quite what you were looking for in our list? Lit Hub has some supplemental titles you might be interested in.
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