hooves on the turf

Elizabeth Searle

Legion of Lit Mags, 2nd Annual Reading and Magazine Fair
Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg
Dec 2, 2006

This year’s Legion of Lit Mag fair was a night filled with fun. Nine literary magazines—Small Spiral Notebook, Ballyhoo Stories, BOMB, Pindeldyboz, Swink, Tin House, Quick Fiction, Opium and Post Road—united to showcase six exciting readers. The selection was a sprightly one, giving those in attendance a flavorful scoop of what these periodicals have been up to.

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Amiri Baraka

Matt Ashby writes: The room filled with about 60 people, some standing in the back, for the interview of Amiri Baraka by Colin Channer. Baraka, known for his poetry and activism, recently released a short story collection Tales of the Out and the Gone, published by Akashic Books, a Brooklyn-based independent house that also published a collection of Jamaican writers, Iron Balloons, as edited by Channer. Akashic’s publisher Johnny Temple introduced them.

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