OPINION
I added some new zines to my list. So now I have to ask the question - what's the best lit zine? This is terribly important to me, because I do wanna publish my books, want them to be best sellers, motion pictures, talkies even. So it behooves me to not only keep up with the best literature, but also to try ta sneak a story or poem into one of ‘em from time to time.
How about you? Where do you go first to find the best lit to read - 3AM, Storyglossia, Word Riot, The New Yorker, Outsider Writers? You tell me. I only list about fifty of ‘em and I’m sure more could and should be added. But time being the essent of our mortalness, I only gots time to read stuff that quick grabs my eye. Like somebody on myspace says they got a new story or poem somewhere’s, likely I’ll check it out, if’n I read their stuff before and really liked it.
I saw on Glimmer Train where the editors think writing can give yah a warm cozy feeling. Which to me is cool, but a lotta contempory zine editors think that it’s Jack Shit. So I’ll say it again and agin n agin. Writing shapes our world, it is who we are. Society directly reflects its literature, either immediately or over a period of time. Yeah, it’s mighty golldarn important stuff. We are wot we read. So read, golldarnit, read!
NEWS
Mike Marcello’s Cleveland Reader is now an online zine as well as in print.
Saw a damn fine editorial by Barry Graham at Dogzplot.
Ed Champion has a new and exciting format to his Filthy Habits.
Melissa Mann’s Beat the Dust is being published in print as well as online.
Pat King of Outsider Writers is looking for more spoken word poetry for his CD.
Tim Gager is the new fiction editor at Wilderness House.
Levi Asher's at the Huffington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tell me whatcha think, add your links, and as always, read our back issues. They're good. And check out other good lit discussions on Kos - Pico, plf515, and cfk.