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Lit Blogs and Book Reviews

• A Blog of One’s Own
  FWR contributor Tori Fullard blogs about books, theater, and a variety of cultural adventures
• A Different Stripe
  notes from NYRB classics
• About Last Night
  Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City (with Our Girl in Chicago and Carrie Frye)
• Barnes & Noble Review
  featuring a daily book review, essays of rediscovery, regular columns and articles covering authors and genres, and a monthly interview.
• Beacon Broadside
  a project of Beacon Press: an online venue for essays, news items, and dispatches from Beacon authors, authors who serve as advisors or friends of the house, staff and others.
• Beatrice
  introducing readers to writers since 1995
• Book Balloon
  where writers and readers discuss literature and the arts
• Book Club Girl
  dedicated to sharing great books, news, and tips with book club girls everywhere
• Book Dwarf
  BookDwarf is Megan Sullivan, one of the frontlist buyers at the Harvard Book Store.
• Book Fox
  a Los Angeles based literary blog started in May of 2006 by John Matthew Fox. Coverage focuses mainly on new literary titles, such as novels, with a particular focus on short story collections.
• Book Lust
  A bibliophile’s musings on books, cartoons, art and stuff.
• Book Ninja
  the premier Canadian literary site, and one of the top literary sites in the world. It is frequented by thousands of people from all around the globe and has become a nexus for literary news and opinion.
• Book Square
  Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism.
• book/daddy
  Jerome Weeks on books. book/daddy’s motto: Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt! (Roughly: All those who published before us can go to hell.)
• Bookavore
  Voracious reader with a certain verbal attitude
• Bookgirl’s Nigthstand
  Iliana blogs about books. Buy her gorgeous hand-made journals at Etsy.
• Books, Inq.
  Proof there is still life after one retires as a newspaper book-review editor. Support to the debonair Mr. Wilson is provided by Katie, John Brumfield, Elizabeth Fox, and Jesse Freedman. (The incomparably generous and always consistent Superior, Wisconsin
• Bookseller Chick
  Connecting readers to books, authors to readers and exploring the on and offline worlds in between.
• BookSlut
  a monthly web magazine and daily blog dedicated to those who love to read. We provide a constant supply of news, reviews, commentary, insight, and more than occasional opinions.
• BookTrix
  an active consultancy, providing innovative and traditional book and marketing services to publishers, authors and content owners.
• Boston Globe: Books
  book coverage from the Boston Globe
• Brit Lit Blogs
  Brit Lit Blogs is the brainchild of six British literary bloggers. Each working hard at bringing readers to forgotten or overlooked books, our BritLitBloggers decided to combine their latest blog entries together in one place.
• Buzzwords
  by the editors at 3:AM: Peddling mind porn to the chattering classes since 2000.
• Chekhov’s Mistress
  Bud Parr’s blog of literary enthusiasms
• Chicago Sun-Times: Books
• Condalmo
  books, culture, politics, gardening
• Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
  crime fiction, and more
• Conversational Reading
  daily literary news, with interviews, reviews, thoughts, and obsessions
• Covers
  dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. We update several times a week. Save for the occasional guest editor, this blog is updated and maintained by Fwis, a design firm based out of Brooklyn, NY and Portland, OR.
• Critical Mass
  Commentary on literary criticism, publishing, writing, and all things NBCC (National Book Critics Circle) related.
• Dibs!
  early buzz on upcoming books (reviewed before they’re published)
• Emerging Writers Network
  Dan Wickett offers book reviews, author interviews, and emerging writers news
• Fernham
  Books, food, friends, and Virginia Woolf.
• Galley Cat
  the first word on the book publishing industry
• Ghost Word
  Frances Dinkelspiel’s ethereal thoughts on books and writing
• Golden Rule Jones
  Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones: I started this blog because I couldn’t find any listing, online or off, that focused on literary events in Chicago. So I decided to publish one myself.
• Guardian Unlimited Books
  book coverage from the Guardian
• I Read a Short Story Today
• Identity Theory
• Jacket Flap
• Largehearted Boy
• Light Reading
• Lit Drift
  blog, resource, and community dedicated to the art & craft of storytelling in the 21st century
• Literary Kicks
• Los Angeles Times Book Review
• Mad Ink Beard
• Maud Newton
• Mercantile Library Director’s Blog
• Metaxu Café
• Moorish Girl
• New York Review of Books
• New York Times Sunday Book Review
• Not a Journal
• Novel World
• Old Hag
• Omnibus
• Out of the Woods Now
• Penguin Blog (UK)
• Penguin Blog (USA)
• Pinky’s Paperhaus
• Powell’s Blog
• Powell’s Review a Day
• Practicing Writing
  Erika Dreifus provides updates on writing and publishing opportunities, lit news, and book reviews
• Publishing Insider
• Rain Taxi
• Rake’s Progress
• Readerville
• Reed Next’s Next Reed
• San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
• Secretly Ironic
• Shaken and Stirred
• Short Stack
• Slush Pile
• Soft Skull News
• Syntax of Things
• Tattered Cover Podcast
• The Book Bench
• The Book Inscriptions Project
• The Elegant Variation
• The Happy Booker
• The Inside Flap
• The Literary Saloon
• The Millions
• The Mumpsimus
• The Neglected Books Page
• The Publishing Contrarian
• The Publishing Spot
• The Reading Experience
• The Reading Room
• The Valve
• The Written Nerd
• This Space
• Three Guys One Book
• Three Percent
• Times Literary Supplement
• Tingle Alley
• Tod Goldberg
• Washington Post: Book World
• Weekend Stubble

Shops and Organizations

• 192 Books (NYC)
  [NYC] Chelsea-based general-interest bookstore featuring key works of literature, history, art, criticism, the social and natural sciences, travel and children’s books. Also features art exhibits and readings.
• 826 National
  a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing
• 826 NYC
  NYC branch of 826, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Since opening their doors in 2004, they have offered offered over one thousand students opportunities to improve their writing and to work side by side with community volunteers.
• 92nd Street Y
  [NYC] a lecture hall, a performance space, a school, a health center and a community organization, the Y remains focused on its mission of enriching the lives of the people who pass through its doors
• AWP
  Since 1967, AWP has supported writers & writing programs around the world. We now support over 34,000 writers at over 500 member colleges & universities & 100 writers’ conferences & centers.
• Bluestockings bookstore (NYC)
  [NYC] a bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side. We carry over 6000 titles: queer and gender studies, global capitalism, feminism, police and prisons, democracy studies, and black liberation. And good ‘ole smutty fiction
• BookCourt bookstore
  [NYC] Cobble Hill bookstore with great readings and a newly expanded space, including a special nook for children’s books.
• Brooklyn Public Library
  As an independent system, separate from the NYC and Queens libraries, BPL serves the borough’s 2.5 million residents, offering thousands of public programs, millions of books and use of more than 850 free Internet-accessible computers.
• Center for Book Arts
  The Center for Book Arts offers over 100 classes and workshops in bookbinding, letterpress printing, paper marbling, typography, and related fields. The Center has mounted over 175 exhibitions during the last 33 years.
• Changing Hands bookstore (Tempe, AZ)
  Tempe, AZ-based indie bookstore, Publishers Weekly 2007 Bookseller of the Year
• City Lights bookstore (San Francisco)
  City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
• Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
  CLMP serves one of the most active segments of American arts and culture: the independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose.
• Elliot Bay Book Company (Seattle)
  Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle’s original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms.
• First Book Marketplace
  an online store selling high-quality children’s books and educational materials at deeply discounted prices to organizations serving children from low-income families.
• Gotham Writers Workshop
  Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham is the leading creative writing school in NYC and the United States. New workshops begin frequently online and in New York City.
• Grub Street
  Grub Street is a non-profit creative writing center dedicated to nurturing writers and connecting readers with the wealth of writing talent in the Boston area.
• Guerrilla Lit Reading Series
  Every last Wednesday of the month. BAR on A – 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street, NYC
• Harvard Bookstore (Cambridge)
• Housing Works bookstore (NYC)
• IndieBound
  Why shop Indie? When you buy books at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits!
• KGB Bar
• Kramerbooks (D.C.)
• Library Hotel
• Literacy Partners
• Malaprop’s Bookstore (Asheville, NC)
• McNally Jackson bookstore (NYC)
  (nee Robinson)
• Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
• New York Public Library
• NewCity Chicago’s Indie Bookstore Guide
• NewPages Guide (to lit mags)
• One More Story
• Politics and Prose bookstore (D.C.)
• Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
• Powell’s City of Books (Portland)
• Shaman Drum bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)
• St. Mark’s Bookshop (NYC)
• Tatnuck Booksellers (Worcester, MA)
• Tattered Cover (Denver)
• The Strand (NYC)
• Three Lives bookstore (NYC)
• Title Wave (Anchorage, AK)

Literary Magazines

• 3:AM Magazine
  this lit mag’s slogan: “Whatever it is, we’re against it.”
• A Public Space
  an independent magazine of literature and culture, a forum for new ideas and new conversations. each issue brings together a wide range of twenty-first century global voices.
• AGNI
  Literature for literature’s sake is not what AGNI is about. Rather, we see literature and the arts as part of a broad, ongoing cultural conversation that every society needs to remain vibrant and alive.
• Alaska Quarterly Review
  from the top of the world
• Alimentum
  The only literary review all about food. Fiction, Poetry, Creative NonFiction.
• American Literary Review
  a biannual journal published through the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English at the University of North Texas. publishes excellent work by writers at all stages in their careers.
• Antioch Review
  one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America; publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established authors.
• Atlantic Monthly Fiction Issue
  fabulous fiction issue of the magazine that used to have the best, best, best stories every month, not just once a year. Sigh.
• Bataeu
  Work in our magazine succeeds because of its individual strengths and ability to move an eclectic readership. The vessel that is Bateau is fashioned the old way; this is reflected in the craftsmanship and quality of our letterpress covers.
• Bellevue Literary Review
  BLR is published by the Department of Medicine at New York University. We invite submissions of previously unpublished works that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing.
• Bellingham Review
  Literature of palpable quality: poems, stories, and essays so beguiling they invite us to touch their essence. The Bellingham Review hungers for a kind of writing that nudges the limits of form, or executes traditional forms exquisitely.
• Bitter Oleander
  The Bitter Oleander Press has been providing the poetry reading public with a highly deep-image driven poetry since 1974. We publish those works whose imaginations open our eyes to a world we thought we knew but were often mistaken or uninformed.
• Black Clock
  Singular, idiosyncratic, and a little mysterious, Black Clock has become one of America’s leading literary journals since its inception five years ago; edited by Steve Erickson, Black Clock is published semi-annually by CalArts in association with the MFA
• Black Warrior Review
  Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, BLR publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art
• Cerise Press
  an international online journal based in the US and France, featuring artists and writers in English and translations, with an emphasis on French and Francophone works
• Chattahoochee Review
  a nationally recognized literary magazine sponsored by Georgia Perimeter College. Each quarter, we publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, and literary criticisms.
• Cincinnati Review
  Established in September 2003, The Cincinnati Review draws together within its pages the finest creative and critical work from across the country. Each issue also features a portfolio of artwork from a local or national artist.
• Colorado Review
  A national literary journal published three times a year, CR is committed to the publication of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
• Crazyhorse
  Crazyhorse publishes the entire spectrum of today’s fiction, essays, and poetry—from the mainstream to the avant-garde, from the established to the undiscovered writer.
• Descant
  Descant is a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world. Begun in 1970 as a mimeograph, Descant has evolved into an exquisitely produced journal of international acclaim.
• Dirty Goat
  a journey that may take the reader from avant-garde Czech drama on one page to contemporary Turkish poetry on the next, this journal offers a taste of some of the world’s most provocative and talented artists.
• Five Chapters
  Five Chapters publishes a short story in five parts each week. Visit daily!
• Florida Review
  the literary journal published twice yearly by the University of Central Florida. Our artistic mission is to publish the best poetry and prose written by the world’s most exciting emerging and established writers.
• Fugue
  While style, tone, and subject matter change from one author to another, in Fugue their voices come together to create a fugue of stories, poems, essays, interviews, and artwork.
• Georgia Review
  Since its inception in 1947, The Georgia Review has grown steadily to its current position as one of America’s premier journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a rich gathering of stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art.
• Gettysburg Review
  Published quarterly, The Gettysburg Review considers unsolicited submissions of poetry, fiction, essays, and essay-reviews from September 1 through May 31 (postmark dates).
• Glimmer Train
  Each quarterly issue presents about 200 pages of literary fiction—eight to twelve brand new stories by luminaries and fresh new voices making their way into print. A feast of fiction!
• Granta
  Welcome to the magazine of new writing.
• Hayden’s Ferry Review
• Indiana Review
• Inkwell
• Iowa Review
• Iron Horse
• Kenyon Review
• KGB Bar Lit
• Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
• Land Grant College Review
• Literal
• McSweeney’s
• Michigan Quarterly Review
• Mississippi Review
• Missouri Review
• N+1
• Natural Bridge
• New England Review
• New Orleans Review
• NextBook
• Nimrod
• Ninth Letter
• On Spec
• One Story
• Open City
• Other Voices
• Paradigm
• Paris Review
• Pindeldyboz
• Ploughshares
• Prairie Schooner
• Redivider
• Saint Ann’s Review
• Salt Hill
• Sewanee Review
• Short Story
• Small Spiral Notebook
• Southeast Review
• Southern Review
• Subtropics
• The Concher (Two Poet Truffles)
• The Pinch
• Third Coast
• Tin House
• TriQuarterly Review
• Virginia Quarterly Review
• Zoetrope