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Let’s say you’re working on a book. Let’s say you’d like for it to be reviewed in the pages of the New Yorker, and not sitting on the free-to-a-good-home book…

I’m heading to the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study for my third day of research for my thesis. Stumbled across a 1926 letter from DW Griffith to Adolph Zukor,…

Short Story magazine, based in Columbia, South Carolina, has announced a call for entries for — you guessed it — short stories. They’ll be selecting 52 to record and podcast…

Seen the Call for Entries for the spring issue of Hot Metal Bridge? The deadline is Feb 25, and the subject matter is up to you. Rumor has it that…

Raymond Carver is perhaps the most esteemed short story writer of the latter half of the 20th century. His biography is well-known — an early marriage; a period of dissolution,…

In 1994, when I was living in LA, my grandmother got me a New Yorker subscription. At first I couldn’t figure it: Gram, a lifelong Connecticut-ian, was more likely to…