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Stay tuned! It’s the middle of March this month which means a new eLitPak newsletter will be coming your way on Wednesday chock full of submission opportunities and upcoming events.
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With the weather trending a bit more towards spring in some parts of the country, it’s still a very messy time of year. So here are some new issues of journals to curl up with. Chinese Literature and Thought Today is excited to announce their second issue after the merger of Chinese Literature Today and Contemporary Chinese Thought. Volume 53, Numbers 3-4 offers part two of special section “Re-Aestheticizing Labor” while the featured scholar is Deng Xiaomeng, an important philosopher and public intellectual. The issue is now available to read completely online.
Meanwhile the Winter 2023 issue of The Main Street Rag is hot off the presses. This issue features an interview with Jim Lundy and work by Susan Ayers, Steve Cushman, Chris Daly, Karen Pelosi, (just to name a few of their many contributors) and a passel of book reviews.
Don’t forget to keep coming back to the NewPages Magazine Stand throughout the week. You will be able to find the Spring 2023 issue of Rattle, Cholla Needles Young Writers and Artists Spring 2023 issue, the March 2023 edition of Poetry, Still Point Arts Quarterly Spring 2023, and an introduction to the San Francisco Youth Anthology.
NewPages has been updating our Guide to Indie Bookstores in the U.S. and Canada, so don’t forget to stop by to find a local independent near you and to check to see if your favorite is there. If it isn’t, do let us know!
Joining our Guide to Literary Magazines, discover more about Okay Donkey Magazine, a journal devoted to the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. They are open to submissions year-round and publish one new piece every Friday alternating between flash fiction and poetry.
If you love discovering new books don’t forget to check out our Book Stand. You can now view a full list of books received for the month of March.
Coming later this year, discover Daniel Galef’s debut collection Imaginary Sonnets which features a cast of people and objects from mythology, history, the news, and quotidian parades through a variety of imaginative scenarios. Out this month, learn more about Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka which follows a group of young Native American puppeteers as they travel from their reservation to the Century 21 Exposition, World’s Fair in Seattle during the 1960s.
Glenna Luschei’s latest crafted collection comprises a retrospective of her life: her youth during WWII; her adventures in New Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, and elsewhere; and her ongoing love affair with the arts. Victory Garden is available now from the University of New Mexico Press.
Gillian Conoley’s Notes from the Passenger, due out in May from Nightboat Books, is a collection written over the course of the last few years as Conoley sought to make room for joy amongst an upturned and unsteady quotidian. Edited by Delia García, Latina Leadership Lessons: Fifty Latinas Speak gathers “Top Ten Leadership Lessons” from 50 high-achieving women.
Carl Fuerst’s novel The Falling Crystal Palace follows the journey of Tory Stebbins, the down-and-out owner of an Identity Verification agency, her strange intern, her bitter business rival, and her astrophysicist ex-wife as they search for Tory’s long lost best friend and search to find a cure to the identity-scrambling, reality-bending condition which everyone in her world suffers from.
Jimmy Santiago Baca’s The Misfits follows a successful screenwriter who decides it’s time to return to his hometown of Santa Luz, New Mexico after living in LA for five years to pen the novel he has always needed to write about his estranged relationship with his father.
Come back to the Book Stand throughout the week to discover new titles by Ray Gonzalez, Ranjit Hoskote, Paul Peart-Smith, Robert Lunday, Aby Kaupang, Sarah Blake, Catherine Pioli (translated into English by J.T. Mahany), and a collection edited by Catherine Rockwood.
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