Ephemera

I ran across an interesting new blog yesterday, Ephemera:

Literary journals, or "little magazines," have played a critical role in our culture, providing a forum for new and seminal writing, nurturing important literary developments, and documenting social & political movements. From perfect-bound magazines to pamphlets, zines, and feuilletons--publishing in these ephemeral forms has long influenced the direction of literature and has been instrumental in creating community.

Unfortunately, the blog is completely anonymous, making authentication of "Professor X" impossible. The blog features posts about individual "little magazines", the type that publish literary essays, short stories and poetry, often with no remuneration. The very first post makes the blog sound like an adjunct to a class. It's fun to read, but possibly less reliable than a Wikipedia article.

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