Aspen Matis
In Conversation
THE EDITORS OF THE COFFIN FACTORY with Aspen Matis
i>The Coffin Factory is a new literary magazine. Its first issue published new stories, essays, and poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Bonnie Nadzam, Bernard Quiriny, John Reed and Fred Reynolds, and old stories by Milan Kundera and José Saramago, among others. I met Randy Rosenthal and Laura Isaacman, the magazines editors, in Park Slopes Tea Lounge.
In Conversation
BOA EDITIONS with Aspen Matis
Based in Rochester, BOA Editions is an independent literary publishing house known for its innovative and form-pushing fiction and poetry collections and its artful translations of the worlds most worthymost necessarynew-made poems. I spoke on the phone with Peter Conners, BOAs publisher and leader of this great small press.
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THE EDITORS OF ELECTRIC LITERATURE with Aspen Matis and Justin Matis
Electric Literature is an online literary magazine built on the principle that great stories should be available digitally. In 2009, Electric Literature launched a quarterly journal that could be printed on-demand, downloaded onto a Kindle, read on an iPhone, viewed as an e-book, and listened to as audio.