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A Celebration of Bighearted, Idiosyncratic Indie Journals
Rachel Aviv
Tuesday, May 30th 2006
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photo: Erin McKean
Erin McKean, editor of Verbatim
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The Magathon
New York Public Library, DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
212-741-9110, ext. 12
Saturday from 4 to 6:30
Free
Seventh Annual Literary Magazine Fair
Housing Works Booktore Café
126 Crosby Street
212-334-3324
Sunday from noon to 5
Free
"I'm starting a magazine for idiosyncratic writing, poetry and fiction that is not easily categorizable in terms of camps of schools of thought and which therefore is unappealing to the current market place," wrote Rebecca Wolff, the editor of Fence, in 2000. That year, she organized Housing Work's first annual Literary Magazine Fair, attended by more than 70 other equally hopeful editors. The tide of independent journals with quirky manifestos and big goals has steadily gained momentum over the past few years. This weekend's fair will have well over 100 publications and a Saturday-afternoon "magathon" reading, from A Public Space, A Gathering of the Tribes, StoryQuarterly, Swing, Gulf Coast, and other journals. On Sunday, editors will showcase their webzines—on laptops scattered over a dozen tables—as well as publications devoted to food, humor, family dysfunctions, West Coast poetry, or getting rid of Bush. All publications are $2; proceeds go to homeless men, women, and children living with AIDS.
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