DRB contributors tend to be academics or experts, writing on highbrow subjects for a general audience. The current issue (October 2024) is indicative. It features Anthony Roche reviewing Brian Friel: Beginnings by Kelly Matthews – an essay that double...
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Think of it this way: you’re putting yourself in the shoes of a literary critic. If you’ve ever read the critiques in popular magazines, you’ll notice they are objective; not personal. Your essay will have a specific format, but it will maintain that critical approach you’ve seen fr...
all magazines have their own styles. So spending your time ensuring your submissions are targeted at therightplaces is much more valuable than sending your writing to as many different publications as possible. Editors can usually scout fairly quickly the pieces that have been submitted en masse, ...
Tolstoy’s influence on literature is without comparison. Authors regularly mention his novels as their highest ambition, works that they could only dream of writing themselves. American writer Francis Scott called Tolstoy the “greatest of all novelists” in his essay. He wrote, “from his first...
Graduated with Longfellow at Bowdoin College, in Maine, he had lived a hermit in respectable Salem, an absolute recluse even from his own family, walking out by night and writing wild tales by day, most of which were burnt in his bachelor fire, and some of which, in newspapers, magazines...
SOL: English Writing in Mexico was a twice yearly on-line literary magazine that accepted fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Content is mostly from the site's 2014 archived pages providing just a glimpse of what this literary site offered its readership.
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Never done that before.”When I asked Jay about writing and publishing these days, he said, “The fracturing of big media, including books and magazines, etc., continues, but strangely, I feel less encumbered by marketplace decisions and am only writing what I can’t not-write, if that ...