Thoughts & News

 

It’s Actual Life. No, It’s Drama. No, It’s Both.

blog date 08/30/2010

The critic Robert Koehler, writing in Cinema Scope magazine, used the phrase “the cinema of in-betweenness” to describe films like “The Anchorage.” Many of these new hybrid films are in line with the artistic sensibility that the writer David Shields outlined in his recent polemic, “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,” which deals mainly with literature but also invokes Werner Herzog, the poet laureate of the subjective documentary, and Sacha Baron Cohen, whose spasms of prankster performance art double as documentaries of bigotry.

Seattle Review call for submissions

blog date 08/15/2010

The editors of Seattle Review, aware that there are dozens of good literary magazines publishing a variety of essays, stories, and poems, seek to carve a more precise identity for the journal by focusing for the foreseeable future on the "long view." We are now the only magazine in America publishing exclusively long work: very long essays (up to, say, 100 pages); very long poems, including poem-sequences; and very long stories, including novellas. The fall issue is already complete (all long poems); it will appear in November. The deadline for submitting work for the spring issue is February 1; it will appear in April. Due to substantial budget cuts, payment will be, alas, quite nominal—perhaps a couple of hundred dollars for very long prose works—and so we realize that we are unlikely to be your journal of first resort when it comes to submitting lengthy, magisterial work. However, I hope that you'll think about sending us any essays, poems, or stories that you write or read that are formally adventurous and intellectually ambitious, and that are so long that they might otherwise have trouble finding a home. Our goal is to create a prominent showcase for the "long view." Please send fiction and poetry to the magazine's editor, Andrew Feld: aefeld@u.washington.edu. Please send nonfiction to me, the nonfiction editor: dshields@davidshields.com. Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. David