News of the World

Forthcoming PANK contributor Shane Jones is interviewed at What to Wear During an Orange Alert.

New issues of Contrary, dispatch litareview, Right Hand Pointing, Blueprint Review, Keyhole Digest, Heron, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz, Defenestration, and The Legendary.   If you ever want us to mention your new issues, please drop us a line at awesome at pank magazine dot come and we’ll give you a shout out.

Are you familiar with Requited? It’s an intriguing new magazine worth checking out. Nonfiction editor Heather Momyer is a previous PANK contributor.

Staccato Fiction cometh.

Submissions are open at the Waccamaw Journal.

An interview with the wonderful Steven Seighman, editor of Monkeybicycle over at Smokelog Quarterly.

Ten years of Tin House.

Karaoke book tour?

Prick of the Spindle is having a poetry contest.

Time interviews Jonathan Ames.

On demand flash fiction. What will they think of next?

Oxford has a new thesaurus for us. I’m sure it will be both excellent and expensive.

Another glowing article about Electric Literature.

Those who know book tours, know literary escorts.

Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, has passed away.

Amazon.com behaving badly, YET again.

The July issue of Word Riot is available on the Kindle. I got it, and it’s pretty neat to be able to take it with me.

Wordnik is an interesting new site for those of us who love words.

61 essential postmodern reads.

Is the Holocaust a genre?

Writer loses his shit publicly.

Entertainment Weekly, or as I like to call it, The Bible, has a book blog.

Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas is available for pre-order.

A report from the Romance Writers of America conference.

An interview with Stephen Elliott.

This week’s Luna Digest.