George [Plimpton] recalls early offices of the magazine, angering Ernest Hemingway with brash interview questions, the many volunteers who flocked to the Review and gave a fledgling publication a boost. He writes of raucous Revels past: “The Revels were memorable affairs, with so much effort spent by staff members in entertaining the guests that very often the fund-raising aspects of the events were forgotten. The extravaganza on Welfare Island (although 750 people turned up) actually lost money—and primarily because a piano was left out in a glade and was ruined in a post-party rain squall.
Recommended Reading: PANK, 8.3
Sundog Lit is putting together their first theme issue, and it’s going to be all about “Games” of all types: video games, baseball games, Game of Thrones, etc…
Recommended Reading: Sink Review.
Beginning with issue 12, Barrelhouse will start paying contributors. Prepare your submissions, everybody.
If you didn’t subscribe to VQR right after Nick Moran recommended it, you might be better persuaded by the magazine’s own list of “The Best Writing in VQR in 2012.”
Our own Garth Risk Hallberg has a story in Prairie Schooner’s Summer Issue, and they interviewed him about the way he writes.
Hobart’s holding a little something called The Buffalo Prize!
