Roxane Gay—
It looks like Open City is closing its pages—a real shame. Issue 30 will be their last and it’s only $10.
It looks like Open City is closing its pages—a real shame. Issue 30 will be their last and it’s only $10.
even though they always annoyed the hell out of me with their year+ response time, this is a bummer. then again, beller’s words really sum up the nature of all art, if not everything: “”These things are not institutions.” nails it. it’s sad to think how we’re all “of a time,” from bands to magazines, but everyone who reads HTMLGIANT probably knows this. the new new eventually becomes grandpa’s soiled depends. wheteverohwell.
i’m disappointed. always one of my favorite journals—and it had come to seem an institution.
Open City Magazine Ends; Open City Books continues…
http://www.observer.com/2011/daily-transom/open-city-closed
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/46353-open-city-magazine-closing-books-imprint-to-continue-.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/03/literary-magazine-open-city-closing.html
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/03/02/open-city/
— Rick Rofihe
Editor, anderbo.com
Judge, opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
Open City’s Joanna Yas speaks easy to The Wall Street Journal…
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/05/open-city-editor-joanna-yas-reflects-on-the-lit-journal/