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Ploughshares is the award-winning non-profit literary magazine based at Emerson College in Boston. Most of our print issues are guest-edited, and our mission is to present varying viewpoints. Our blog is an extension of our print publication, and so we feature writing from guest-bloggers. We present their opinions to our readers in order to foster a lively discussion, but do not necessarily endorse all viewpoints published on our blog.
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Lovestar
Lovestar Andri Snǣr Magnason Seven Stories Press, November 2012 320 pages $16.95 In the not-so-distant future, a team of Icelandic scientists has discovered the revolutionary science of birdwaves, opening up a world of massive, cordless, instantaneous communication. This future is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Andri Magnason, dystopian fiction, Lovestar, Seven Stories Press
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New Ploughshares Solo Published: Escape and Reverse by Chelsey Johnson
We’re excited to announce the publication of our fifth Ploughshares Solo: “Escape and Reverse” by Chelsey Johnson. Our Ploughshares Solos series allows us to publish long-form stories every month an a digital format. Recent Ploughshares Solos include “Phoenix” (fiction) by Megan Mayhew Bergman … Continue reading
THAT LIT, LIT LIFE (with global characteristics) 12 (of 14)
32 years away from the city of Melbourne and I return to find it in a different “Australia.” For one thing, all the restaurants downtown were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian or otherwise distinctly “Asian.” Hidden somewhere down one street was … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Alice Pung, Amanda Webster, Arnold Zable, Australia, David Shields, Desmond Barry, Frank Morehouse, Gail Jones, Helen Garner, Ira Sukrungruang, John Gardner, Jose Dalisay, Joyful Strains, Kent McCarter, Leila Philip, Margo Jeffries, Mary Ann Mohanraj, Melbourne, Nonfiction Now!, Patrick Madden, Peanuts, University of Glamorgan, Violin Lessons
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Fair Pay
Three things coincided recently. 1) Jana Hunter, the singer for the band Lower Dens, recently wrote about her band’s relationship to streaming music services. 2) Scott Repass, Houston writer and saloon keeper, said in an article in the Houston Chronicle, … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged David Stuart MacLean, Jana Hunter, Lower Dens, Netflix, Nootropics, Redbox, Scott Repass, The Campaign
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Literary Boroughs #30: Denver, CO
The Literary Boroughs series will explore little-known and well-known literary communities across the country and world and show that while literary culture can exist online without regard to geographic location, it also continues to thrive locally. Posts are by no means exhaustive and we encourage … Continue reading
Interview With Poet Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James, 2014), the winner of the 2012 Kundiman Poetry Prize. She received her MFA from New York University and is the recipient of fellowships from The Fine Arts Work Center at … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers, Interviews
Tagged Cathy Linh Che, Hedgebrook, Kundiman Poetry Prize, New York University, Poets House, Split, Vietnam
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Books for Breakfast with David McCullough and 826 Boston
If you are a writer or reader currently in the Boston area, check out the upcoming fundraiser by the ever fabulous 826 Boston: Sit down for breakfast with 826 Boston and two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian David McCullough … Continue reading
Roundup: On Reading
As we look forward to updating the Ploughshares blog for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Bridget Lowe, Carol Keeley, Eric Weinstein, Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Following Tommy
Following Tommy Bob Hartley Cervena Barva Press, July 2012 104 pages $17.00 I was asked to review “Following Tommy” in part because I’m a Chicagoan. Bob Hartley’s first novel is set in the West side of the Windy City, and … Continue reading
REDACTED: Experiences with Digital Americana’s Interactive Literary Magazine
This post was written by John Rodzvilla, Emerson College’s Electronic Publisher-in-Residence. There has always been somewhat of an unrealized promise of interactivity with digital literature. It should be more than an enhanced experience of the print original, but still reflect … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Tagged Appeal Software, Digital Americana, digital publishing, iTunes, Michael Chabon, multimedia, Telegraph Avenue
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