It was probably arrogant and short-sighted of me to think journalism would ever be spared from the outsourcing wave. I’m all for emerging economies, but this is beyond bullshit. A publisher in Pasadena hired two journalists in India to cover city council meetings via the web. It’s only costing him about $20k. I don’t like [...]
Book and lit blog, BookFox (which I just discovered from my logs of links to this site) has a post about literary journals and their response times. I quote: I’ll have a tiny journal like Apple Valley Review reject my short shorts in less than a week, while a heavy hitter like Columbia Journal still [...]
Now that things are under way at After the MFA, it’s only fair to come clean about something. Unless you count my high school literary journal — of which I happened to be editor-in-chief — I have never been published in a literary journal or magazine. Wait. Before you drop your laptop on the ground [...]