/lit/ - Literature

The Paris Review
Granta
New Yorker
themillions.com
aldaily.com
bookforum.com
lareviewofbooks.org

>>3602497
I am a Paris Review subscriber.

About 90% of it is shitty.

Also get Poetry magazine.

Also about 90% shit.

>>3602497
http://www.thereviewreview.net/publishing-tips/new-yorker-rejects-itself-quasi-scientific-a

>>3602535

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/03/19/new_yorker_slush_pile_submitting_plagiarized_fiction_is_a_waste_of_everyone.html

>>3602531
90% of everything is shit

Why not wait until the best authors release their published short stories in one book?

>>3602547
90% of a counting crows album isn't shit
90% of a box of oatmeal creme pies isn't shit

>>3602553
>90% of a counting crows album isn't shit

Are you joking?

>90% of a box of oatmeal creme pies isn't shit

Alright, you've got me there.

Lately it's been the New Yorker's fiction blog, the NYRB, TLS, The Millions, and Harriet (Poetry Foundation).

>>3602531
I was considering subscribing to the Paris Review but they don't really have a worthwhile student discount. My university got it for a long time, so I'd just read it in the library, but it appears I was the only one ever making use of it, because I haven't seen the new issue in its place.

I liked the fiction pieces in the last two issues, though the poetry can be a bit spotty. I've looked back at some (terribly-bound) archival issues at my uni and some of the stories are downright awful, and the poetry tryhard nonsense.

>>3602690
>Are you joking?

I was joking a bit.

>Alright, you've got me there.

Thank god we're on the same page in regards to this.

>>3602697
I really hope for quality stuff with each issue I receive, but I just fail to see it.

One would think that something with the reputation of TPR would be able to consistently showcase high quality fiction/poetry mixed in with a bit of young and/or fresh talent, but I just have no clue what the fuck they are doing over there. Maybe it is just literature in general and MFA factories spitting out folks who just churn out the same type of shit, or maybe it is Lorin Stein's fault. Either way, I'm never impressed and really want to be.

>God Tier Publications

London Review of Books
N+1
Granta

>Good Tier

Literary Review
New Left Review
Radical Philosophy
Adbusters

>Average Tier

New York Review of Books
Times Literary Supplement
Guardian Review/New York Times Book Review
Times Higher Education/The Chronicle Book Review

>>3602752
what? the LBR is not that much better than the TLS. granta is good and n+1 is good but neither would be god-tier. i don't know any publication that could be called god-tier.

>>3602752

Adbusters is just intellectual wankery for doomsday fetishists. It's Average Tier at best.

>>3602806

I'd personally put the LRB several slots above the TLS but I guess it depends on what your looking for in a publication. God Tier? Well I was just using the nomenclature and something has to occupy the top spot, no?

>>3602818

Perhaps, but if you should probably be reading it if you consider yourself 'relevant'.

>>3602845

Quoting Zizek and contemporary Polish apocalypse poets does not Adbusters relevant make.

>>3602845
'relevant'? you smug bastard.

>>3602845
LRB behind the TLS imo. not everyone likes the TLS style though. it's old fashioned, the printing is cheap. it's stylistic ideals seems to be stuck somewhere in the early twentieth century. you generally find untranslated latin, french, and german in the TLS. i think the TLS aims at a more scholarly or educated audience.

>>3602531

The Paris Review went to shit after Philip Gourevitch and his editorial crew were pushed out.

Lorin Stein, pictured here, is the new editor. Former FSG stooge. He's a faggy megalomanic with an obsession for stories about sex.

Some of the former PR staff, including Christopher Cox, moved to Harper's. Since their involvement, that magazine's put out some amazing content. I think it's a better magazine than the New Yorker at this point. (Certainly carries less TIna Brown-era stories about celebrities.)

>>3602869

Well I guess I'm the other way around. I appreciate the long form essays of the LRB far more, as well at its inclination towards more esoteric subjects. I think its probably the same audience, with the TLS functions more as a day to day 'trade' publication and the LRB providing a more detached approach to the literary world.

>>3602881
how odd. i prefer the TLS for the same reasons as you prefer the LRB. i find both quite detached, at least compared with other literary weeklies here and abroad.

>>3602532
>themillions.com

>The word that made me lift my fingers from the keyboard was “clitoris.” Was it okay to use this word? What would my fellow literary writers, my former teachers and classmates at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop think of me?

lol

>literary publications
>literary blogs

all pleb mediums. they don't have shit on /lit/.

Shit I will subscribe to after I move:

Aeon
Edge
n+1
NYRB
LARB
NY Times
x American Scholar
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Lapham's Q.
The New Criterion

Don't tell anyone.

>>3603256
Shit you'll never read after you move:

Aeon
Edge
n+1
NYRB
LARB
NY Times
x American Scholar
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Lapham's Q.
The New Criterion

>>3603260

I read them online bretty much every day, fuck you.

>>3603262
I used to go to the library to read several magazines and newspapers, then when I got money I subscribed to them but quickly lost interest in them

>>3603271

Lol, I'm selling my computer to pay for the subs. Won't be having your ADD problem.

>not a single mention of Litkicks

>>3603305

moar leik LICKDICK amirite

>>3603309

you sir are correct sir

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