October 12th, 2008 / 5:12 pm
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Fresh Literary Magazine Reviews at NewPages

It’s that time again, kids. New literary magazine reviews are filleting eyelids at NewPages. You’ll find reviews of many fine lit mags. I am glad to see that the online venues are reviewed with the print mags, instead of at the bottom of the page. Also, leading off this batch is a review of Abyss & Apex, an online quarterly focusing on speculative fiction and poetry. (Is there such a thing as speculative non-fiction? Would that be science? Philosophy? I’d like to see some slipstream personal essays and such.) Anyway, these magazines are reviewed:

Abyss & Apex :: Arsenic Lobster :: The Colorado Review :: Cutbank :: The Deronda Review :: Dirty Goat :: Fulcrum :: Hanging Loose :: Juked :: The Louisville Review :: Monkey Bicycle :: Ninth Letter :: Paterson Literary Review :: Upstreet

And don’t forget the latest book reviews, too, if you haven’t gotten to them since Blake mentioned those. Good stuff all over the place.

One of my aims with this post was the shameless overuse of the word “review”.

Is it technically Mean Week today? This is a pretty nice post.

Well, that’s too bad. Fuck off.

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15 Comments

  1. Justin Taylor

      Did anyone else notice that New Pages was basically 100% breathless about 100% of what they reviewed, more or less 100% of the time? Except for the metered, polite quibble with Louisville Review’s layout, it seems like NP’s thesis is that everything is equally awesome. If this is the case, why review any of it? Why read any one thing rather than any other?

  2. Justin Taylor

      Did anyone else notice that New Pages was basically 100% breathless about 100% of what they reviewed, more or less 100% of the time? Except for the metered, polite quibble with Louisville Review’s layout, it seems like NP’s thesis is that everything is equally awesome. If this is the case, why review any of it? Why read any one thing rather than any other?

  3. barry

      yeah, fuck that.

  4. barry

      yeah, fuck that.

  5. Darby Larson

      Places like NP were a catalyst for me to say what the fuck in a similar way. It would be a good mean week thing. There should be a similar post about NP that is injected into a mean week vein.

  6. Darby Larson

      Places like NP were a catalyst for me to say what the fuck in a similar way. It would be a good mean week thing. There should be a similar post about NP that is injected into a mean week vein.

  7. Ryan Call

      barry,

      you still want me to review your shit for newpages?

  8. Ryan Call

      barry,

      you still want me to review your shit for newpages?

  9. barry

      during mean week… i know paper hero is shitty. do what the fuck you want.

      i may regret saying that next week when mean week is over.

      please take into consideration that drew kalbach is a kid who has nothing to do with me posting this. be kind to him at least.

  10. barry

      during mean week… i know paper hero is shitty. do what the fuck you want.

      i may regret saying that next week when mean week is over.

      please take into consideration that drew kalbach is a kid who has nothing to do with me posting this. be kind to him at least.

  11. Ryan Call

      right on, barry

      im sure good things will be said
      i lookforward to reading

  12. Ryan Call

      right on, barry

      im sure good things will be said
      i lookforward to reading

  13. Josh Maday

      I would be interested to read the Mean Week NP post.

      I’m in a position here, obviously, as a NP reviewer, but I agree about the ‘everything in the world ever written is fan-diddly-tastic’. Narry a bad review in the whole place. I’m as guilty as any. Although I don’t recall reading anything atrocious the whole time I’ve reviewed for them.

      Make the Mean Week NP post, mu’fuckas.

  14. Josh Maday

      I would be interested to read the Mean Week NP post.

      I’m in a position here, obviously, as a NP reviewer, but I agree about the ‘everything in the world ever written is fan-diddly-tastic’. Narry a bad review in the whole place. I’m as guilty as any. Although I don’t recall reading anything atrocious the whole time I’ve reviewed for them.

      Make the Mean Week NP post, mu’fuckas.

  15. Crazy46

      It seems neither adequate nor possible to dissect into discrete ‘properties’ the pattern of an organism which is essentially a unity, a ‘whole’. ,