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The Rome Review: an update
I emailed Tarek al-Hariri this (unnecessarily formal) email the other night after he commented on the post about his new journal, The Rome Review. He emailed me back and including a complete list of contributors for the debut issue.
Dear Tarek,
Thank you for commenting on my post at HTMLGIANT regarding The Rome Review.
I admit that it did not occur to me at the time that there had been a misunderstanding about Diaz being published in your journal. Thank you for clarifying that as well as providing for us a complete list of your contributing authors. That was much appreciated. I’ll have to link to it or bump it to the front of the page to make sure the rest of our readers have a chance to see it.
Also, thank you for being patient with us. We’re a rough crowd at times (both our contributors and our readers), and we like to gossip about things, to question them, to talk trash, etc. Everyone is kindhearted, but also opinionated over here.
I do sincerely wish you luck with the journal. I hope you can publish exactly what you want to publish.
Best,
Ryan
And here is his response:
Dear Ryan,
Thanks for the note; I really appreciate it.
We’ve received several submissions as a result of the publicity from your blog-post so we appreciate the attention! Blake Butler sent us an incredible piece; It’s exactly what we’re looking for.
I thank you for offering to link our author list. I’ve attached it.
“Everyone is kindhearted, but also opinionated over here.” Thank god for that; you have no idea how refreshing that is, a lot of people in college here seem to have forgot how to feel and think a long while back.
Best,
-t
And here is his list of contributors for the debut issue:
Authors who have been accepted and will appear in the debut issue of The Rome Review:
Steve Almond, author of the short story collections The Evil B.B. Chow and My Life in Heavy Metal, the non-fiction novel Candy Freak and Not That You Asked
Marshall Boswell, author of Alternative Atlanta, Trouble With Girls and Understanding David Foster Wallace
Patrick Bouvet (translated by Frank Wynne), author of the poetry collections Canon, Direct, and Shot
Blake Butler, (pending) work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Willow Springs, Harpur Palate, and others.
Stephen Cushman, author of Heart Island, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (ed.)
Junot Díaz (interview), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the short story collection Drown
John Domini, author of Highway Trade, Talking Heads: 77, Books and Rough Business, and Earthquake ID
Thomas Sayers Ellis (artwork and poetry), author of The Good Junk, The Genuine Negro Hero, Song On, and The Maverick Room
Norton Girault (fiction and poetry), has appeared in MSS, Crescent Review, Timbuktu, and Snake Nation Review
Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Men Without Bliss and Other Fugitives and Other Strangers
Joumana Haddad, administrator of Booker-IPAF prize, author of Time For a Dream, Invitation to a Secret Feast and Two Hands to the Abyss
Mickey S. Hess, author of Icons of Hip Hop and Is Hip Hop Dead?
Roy Kesey, author of All Over and Nothing in the World
Nestan-Nene Kvinikadze, author of Ispahan Nightingales
David Means, O’Henry Prize-winning author of the story collections A Quick Kiss of Redemption, The Secret Goldfish and Assorted Fire Events
Aimee Parkison, author of the short story collection Van Windows
George Singleton, author of Work Shirts for Mad Men, The Half Mammals of Dixie and Novel
Eric Vrooman, fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, The Cream City Review, Passages North, and Ninth Letter
G. C. Waldrep, author of Goldbeater’s Skin and One Way No Exit
William Wall, author of This is the Country, The Map of Tenderness, Minding Children and Alice Falling
Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Mr Sebastian and the Negro Magician
Jake Adam York, author of Murder Ballads and A Murmuration of Starlings
That is all. Carry on.
Tags: kindhearted, The Rome Review, unnecessarily formal emails
What happened to the Sheila Heti piece??
What happened to the Sheila Heti piece??
Second Steve Almond sighting today. Sounds like he’s getting ready for another active push. I’ve enjoyed his work.
Second Steve Almond sighting today. Sounds like he’s getting ready for another active push. I’ve enjoyed his work.
That’s a pretty impressive list. Roy’s stories are great and Blake’s work is rad, of course. It’ll be interesting to read more Daniel Wallace, too. I’ve seen a lot of Steve Almond today as well for some reason. But, yeah, where’s Sheila Heiti? I’ve only read Big Fish and I really enjoyed that. Anyway, good for The Rome Review. This was a very agreeable comment, I think. Maybe I should have found a way to talk shit about Tao.
That’s a pretty impressive list. Roy’s stories are great and Blake’s work is rad, of course. It’ll be interesting to read more Daniel Wallace, too. I’ve seen a lot of Steve Almond today as well for some reason. But, yeah, where’s Sheila Heiti? I’ve only read Big Fish and I really enjoyed that. Anyway, good for The Rome Review. This was a very agreeable comment, I think. Maybe I should have found a way to talk shit about Tao.
fuck i want to be in Rome review just for the name. Speaking of Rome, check out Leonardo’s site… http://www.oblique.it/ not sure what he’s saying, but he’s the man in Rome.
fuck i want to be in Rome review just for the name. Speaking of Rome, check out Leonardo’s site… http://www.oblique.it/ not sure what he’s saying, but he’s the man in Rome.
Yeah, Big Fish was good, I think.
Steve Almond’s 12 Stories story was very unalmondy. Interested to see what he’s up to.
Obama voice: Look. I think the American people understand that Tao Lin is exactly as popular as he should be. Now the fact that he would fly his private jet to Washington to ask Congress for a bail out: that’s tone deaf.
Matt Bell’s 12 Stories story was funny. I liked it.
Yeah, Big Fish was good, I think.
Steve Almond’s 12 Stories story was very unalmondy. Interested to see what he’s up to.
Obama voice: Look. I think the American people understand that Tao Lin is exactly as popular as he should be. Now the fact that he would fly his private jet to Washington to ask Congress for a bail out: that’s tone deaf.
Matt Bell’s 12 Stories story was funny. I liked it.
that’s awesome/ congratulations, blake! but i don’t understand really *formal* emails. they confuse me.
that’s awesome/ congratulations, blake! but i don’t understand really *formal* emails. they confuse me.
Rome (pronounced /roʊm/; Italian: Roma, pronounced [ˈroma]; Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and the country’s largest and most populous city, with over 2.7 million residents in a municipality of some 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million.
Rome (pronounced /roʊm/; Italian: Roma, pronounced [ˈroma]; Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and the country’s largest and most populous city, with over 2.7 million residents in a municipality of some 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million.
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