Tell Me a Story

  There are magazines covering all sorts of topics these days—cars, cooking and fashion among others.  Readers may not be as familiar with another form of a publication—literary journals! Literary journals have been around for many years.  One of the first was North American Review which was founded in Boston in 1815.  It continues to create issues.  You can visit their site here.  Walt Whitman had been known to say, “The North American is hospitable to new, strange views; invites, accepts, and that is a gift these days.”   Since North American Review , there have been many other literary journals launched.  Two of my favorites are Fiction and The Paris Review . Fiction was founded by Mark Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, Max Frisch and Jane Delynn in 1972.  In its early years, they published experimental works by writers such as Jerome Charyn and Samuel Beckett.  Fiction did publish my short story, “Silver Boxes” as well.  The cover of the issue is shown here but I promise that is not why