“The Mix Tapes of Literature” – Why You Need to Be Reading Literary Magazines

Posted on October 2, 2017 Updated on October 3, 2017

This month, the Sewanee Review — the historic literary journal published just down the road from Nashville at the University of the South — celebrates its 500th issue. Are literary magazines having a moment? To watch them flying off our periodicals shelf, you might think so. We asked Adam Ross, the Review‘s editor, to contemplate just what it is that literary journals add to a book-lover’s reading life. He writes: Read the rest of this entry »