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The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, or CLMP, is a service organization for independent literary presses and magazines. Established in 1967 by a board of magazine editors that included George Plimpton and Russell Banks, CLMP currently serves a diverse population of over 500 indie publishers.

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thetinhouse-deactivated20180604

Rhyme and reason are not opposites or rivals. They even use the same parts of the brain.

“The research found that reading poetry in particular increases activity in the right hemisphere of the brain, an area associated with ‘autobiographical memory,’ enabling the reader to reflect on and review their own experiences in light of what they had read. The study’s academics believed this meant that the classics were more useful than self-help books.”

englishkillsreview

C.E. Morgan’s first novel, All the Living earned her a Pen Award nomination and a “5 Under 35” award. She was at Greenlight Bookstore to discuss The Sport of Kings, her second nov…

theparisreview

I wanted to grow up and just be a reader, just be someone who read.

Lydia Davis, Art of Fiction No. 227 (via theparisreview)

libraryjournal

The past ten years have seen dramatically increased visibility of transgender people in the public eye. For those in the community and those wanting to understand more about it, these 30 resources will fill in many of the blanks.

People at all points on the gender spectrum have always existed. However, the past ten years have seen dramatically increased visibility of transgender people in the public eye. Politicians, actors, film directors, and athletes have come out as transgender. In response, we’ve seen an increase in the number and diversity of materials on and about transgender issues. Autobiography is an ever-popular category, notable for being one of the few genres in which transgender people’s voices are heard.

myjetpack

A recent cartoon for the Guardian.

p.s. you can now follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomgauld/

theparisreview

It’s important to try to write when you are in the wrong mood or when the weather is wrong.

John Ashbery, born in 1927 (via theparisreview)

booksbyheart

When I talked to Jim Shepard for The Atlantic’s “By Heart,” he offered to scan a page from his teaching copy of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Here it is–and wow. It’s visually stunning, but if you squint at the notes there’s some great pearls of wisdom about the story.

For a closer look, see Jim Shepard’s copy of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on Flickr.

He had the deepest suspicion that her God was Nature.

#Orlando #virginia woolf #lit #human #nature

smallpressdistribution

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It’s books for days over here at the brand new SPD website. Happy browsing!

"I have never been so happy to meet anyone as I am to meet you in this dainty house by the bully sea." --Cal Bedient in the newest issue of Hunger Mountain

#Cal Bedient #CLMP #Hunger Mountain #lit mags

“Untitled (Destroying Flesh)” by Juliana Huxtable whose poetry collection is coming out from Wonder Books in the spring.

Produced for the New Museum Triennial and recently featured in Lamdba’s list of “Ten Poems by QPOC You Really Should Have Read This Year”

#juliana huxtable #text #poetry #lit #purple #queer #body #ladosha #wonder

nprbooks

The creators of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale are now telling their tales of a strange desert town in novel form. Critic Amal El-Mohtar says it’s “a splendid, weird, moving novel.”

All Hail The Glow Cloud: ‘Night Vale’ Welcomes Readers

clmporg

Last year’s hosts of the Firecracker Awards have adapted their outstanding podcast into this outstanding novel.

#night vale #amal el-mohtar #npr #lit

janefriedman

Proud to be a contributor to The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, just out from the University of Chicago Press. My essay is called “The Future of the Gatekeepers.”

clmporg

Join us for an event celebrating this anthology at the New York Public Library on Wednesday, October 21, at 6:00 pm.

#magazine #book #pic #lit #nypl #triquarterly