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Issue 1.7 Previous Issues

The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Michael J. Collins December 9, 2012 15 Comments A Visit From the Goon Squad Allen Tate American short story annual canonicity Charles Dickens China Mieville consumption digital culture e-readers Edgar Allen Poe F. R. Leavis flash fiction Frank O'Connor generic instability history of the book Jennifer Egan John Crowe Ransom Kindle literary canon literary copyright literary fiction literary genre literary marketplace litfic Louisa May Alcott magazine market pressures mass market periodicals Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne print culture published fiction Raymond Williams seasonal periodical Short story The Man Booker Prize the novel form Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern twitter fiction Washington Irving

Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick…

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Issue 1.6 Previous Issues

Fifty Shades of the Future

Katy Shaw November 1, 2012 3 Comments Amazon authorship BDSM Chick Lit circulation consumption e-books E. L. James Erotic literature Fifty Shades of Grey form gender genre Kindle Leveson Inquiry mummy porn publishing publishing industry romance ficiton sexuality Stephanie Meyer TwiFic Twilight Vintage yummy mummy fiction

In departure lounges, train stations and motorway services across the UK, one novel – or rather one trilogy – has graced the laps of engrossed readers for the past twelve months…

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