Literary magazines/journals

The NYRB does these reviews of contempory fiction that sort of merge review, summary, imitation and highlighted extracts - sometimes they're astonishing, magical. They don't really publish fiction themselves, tho.

One Story looks cool!

Zoetrope has launched some good writers, like Francine Prose.

most amazingly, all of the magazines offered with a salon premium subscription offer you the option of taking the cash equivalent. thus you can subscribe to salon premium for $35, and de-subscribe to wired (+$12) and u.s. world and news report (+$20), and it's like getting salon, granta, and NYRB all for $3 a year. the whole thing is baffling, and granted, i have yet to receive my first issues of granta or NYRB, but i have cashed the checks, so i know the $3 deal is sound.

as for lit magazines, i like the new england review (despite it's reliably ugly cover), one story, land grant college review (so far), and tin house.

http://www.thewhirligig.com

Sorry to be self-referential, couldn't help it.

There's The New Quarterly
http://newquarterly.uwaterloo.ca

They're aren't too avante garde, but I used to work for them and they publish some really good stuff.

Carousel
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~carousel/

A combination of lit and art, they're not insanely experimental but they aren't afraid to take risks. I'm in their next issue. :)

Geist
http://www.geist.com

A decent blend of fiction and non-fiction, and they like to be vague on which is which. Plus, their online identity was designed by none other than Dean Allen.

Maisonneuve
http://www.maisonneuve.org/

A joint Canadian/US venture, they're just a whole lotta fun. They published Dale Peck's final negative review. They're also late w/ my subscription/boxed set.

Canadian Notes and Queries
http://www.sentex.net/~pql/cnq.html

Sort of a Canadian LRB, but not really. They frequently publish David Solway, the Canadian Dale Peck. Published by the Porcupine's Quill, an amazing little small press that publishes excellent books on gorgeous paper with stellar typography, and then tops it all off with the ugliest, cheapest looking covers that fall apart if you look at them cross-eyed.

Matrix
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~matrix/

Hit and miss. One issue you've got a rather bad bunch of poetry with unremarkable fiction and the next you've got a glittering jewel of literary genius.

Brick
http://www.brickmag.com/

Best known for being the pet project of Micheal Redhill and Michael Ondaatje as well as the frequent "unofficial" involvement of the ridiculously over-rated Margaret Atwood (all fine Canadian poets and mediocre Canadian novelists), its incestuous nature makes the McSweeney's/Believe/etc. bunch look like a group of well-meaning strangers. Most of the time they publish highly literate fiction and essays, but once in a while some folks like Lisa Moore and Michael Winter (both decent Canadian authors, and part of Canada's literary "inner-circle", if you can imagine such a thing) will publish a drunken disagreement that reads like someone trying to prove a point by posting an AIM transcript on a LiveJournal (issue 68, fall 2001 springs to mind, in which they offered up two conflicting transcripts of a rather dull discussion about what to call Lisa Moore's latest book).

There are more, but I'll leave it at that for now.

anyone in the know want to divulge who benjamin anastas' ex-wife is? remarkably hard to find online and yet he wrote a whole breakup about the dissolution of their marriage

Man, I've been googling madly for a while now and no luck. Is the book any good? it looks interesting, but maybe too self-pitying?

don't know if it's good, sounds self-pitying, but how is it possible that there is no trace? i've googled it to death too and nothing. i may have to break down and ask a friend who would know but it's a little embarrassing!

my guess (I don't know these ppl) is "M1nna Pr0ct0r"

Brick
http://www.brickmag.com/

Best known for being the pet project of Micheal Redhill and Michael Ondaatje as well as the frequent "unofficial" involvement of the ridiculously over-rated Margaret Atwood (all fine Canadian poets and mediocre Canadian novelists), its incestuous nature makes the McSweeney's/Believe/etc. bunch look like a group of well-meaning strangers. Most of the time they publish highly literate fiction and essays, but once in a while some folks like Lisa Moore and Michael Winter (both decent Canadian authors, and part of Canada's literary "inner-circle", if you can imagine such a thing) will publish a drunken disagreement that reads like someone trying to prove a point by posting an AIM transcript on a LiveJournal (issue 68, fall 2001 springs to mind, in which they offered up two conflicting transcripts of a rather dull discussion about what to call Lisa Moore's latest book).

I really like Brick a lot.

Thanks Boxall...xp