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Whole Story: Editors on Fiction

by Warren Slesinger
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Cultural Writing. Each of the editors of major U.S. literary magazines explains the choice of a particular story, describes the editorial procedures and defines the editorial policies of the literary magazine in which the story originally appeared. Written especially for the collection, each of the essays contains the complete text of an examplary story by a contemporary writer with the editor's comments. The included editors are from the following magazines: The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, CALYX: A Journal of the Arts and Literature By Women, The Carolina Quarterly, Chelsea, Fiction, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, Iowa Woman, New England Review, New Letters, The North American Review, Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Texas Quarterly, The Threepenny Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

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Library Journal

The mystery of selection by editors of literary magazines is unmasked in this anthology containing 25 contemporary stories that appeared in literary magazines such as the Antioch Review, Iowa Review, and Threepenny Review. The anthology features a companion essay by the journals' editors wherein they explain their choices. The essays are valuable for their insight into the enigmatic editorial process and their discussion of general criteria, as well as specific reasons for each story's appearing in the anthology. The stories often reflect the taste of the editors; most are written by relatively unknown authors, and some are outstanding, such as "Sheets" by Beth Bosworth, published in Calyx. Brief biographies of the editors and authors are included. Highly recommended for humanities collections.-Janice Braun, Mills Coll., Oakland, Cal.

Book Details

Published
May 1, 1995
Publisher
Bench Press, The
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780930769123

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