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Lit Sites Update

by Bud Parr

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Not too long ago the Lit blog community was up in arms over the Zembla Magazine site. In keeping with their hip lit reputation the Zembla hipsters (you probably can tell that I’m not one by the way that I throw the word around) developed a Flash (Macromedia’s slick site design software that is quickly becoming overused in uncreative ways) site that scrolled sideways and seemed otherwise pointless to visit.



Well, I decided to stop by the site again. Apparently, Zembla heard the disquietude that their site was causing among their readers because they’ve added an html version (at least I don’t recall that version being there initially). Still there’s hardly any content on either version of the site worth spending any time on and the site has four menu items that all link to the same page. Trying to download the press pack I got a “File Not Found The requested URL /v1/html/Zembla_MP_24_3_04.pdf was not found on this server.”



Okay, so why bother. They do have some letter to click on to see “fun with words,” but that’s not really content (this is my other half/web guy talking more than my literature guy).



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⬆⬆⬆ Literal Latte, which used to be a print publication, has a new life on-line with archives to past print issues included.



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⬆⬆⬆⬆ n+1 is a new journal and a personal favorite. It’s editors can’t seem to help themselves and often have new content on the site. Whenever I check back there is something new – and that makes me want to keep checking back.



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⬆⬆ Rain Taxi has a Fall issue out with an on-line edition that includes reviews and mention of the on-line journal…



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⬆ Frank “An international journal of contemporary writing and art.” I haven’t really checked this one out yet, since I only today saw it at Rain Taxi’s site, but it is apparently “the longest-running Anglophone literary magazine in Paris.”



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⬆⬆⬆ World Literature Today recently put out a new issue and they have content on-line (pdf files of some of the print version’s articles).



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⬆⬆ Zoetrope: All-Story has one story and excerpts from other stories from their latest issue on-line.



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That’s it for now. I may try to get a little more in-depth coverage of journals with on-line content because I think it’s worthwhile. Not trying to replace these guys, though.



It seems to me that the web is becoming a great deal more useful as a place to read than just a place to print things out (to wit: blogs). I don’t subscribe to any newspapers other than on-line, I’ve replaced any magazines I can with on-line versions, such as the Economist, and I use a Zinio reader for others as well. Be Green! I think the electricity usage far outweighs the paper usage this way. But, I digress.



There are some great literary journals now that only exist on-line, such as Literal Latte that I mentioned above, and these two:



⤷ Small Spiral Notebook

⤷ Memorious, which put out their second issue in July.



There are many more than I mentioned and I’m sure there are more that I don’t know about. If you know of any journals (not the mainstream stuff) with significant on-line content that I should know about, leave a comment.



p.s. I apologize for the poor rambling writing today. Little time, less focus.



Read widely, think well, and write often.

posted September 30, 2004

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