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Other Voices, Inc. is a non-profit literary press encompassing ''Other Voices'' literary magazine and the fiction imprint OV Books. ''Other Voices'' magazine Established in 1984, ''Other Voices'' was a "fiction-focused magazine ... dedicated to publishing diverse, original short stories by authors ranging from literary bestsellers to cutting-edge experimentalists," as well as interviews with fiction writers and reviews of contemporary fiction. It was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The magazine was closed in 2007. Contributors Toni Morrison, Dan Chaon, Richard Ford, Stuart Dybek, Antonya Nelson, Jane Smiley, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Josip Novakovich, Aimee Bender, Peter Ho Davies, Michael Cunningham, Terry McMillan and Junot Díaz. Work from ''Other Voices'' was also anthologized in ''The Best American Short Stories Of The Century'' (2000), edited by John Updike. OV Books The fiction book imprint OV Books aims to "keep the short story form vital in today’s competit ...
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The Best American Short Stories Of The Century
The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of '' The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in contemporary American literature. Edward O'Brien The series began in 1915, when Edward O'Brien edited his selection of the previous year's stories. This first edition was serialized in a magazine; however, it caught the attention of the publishing company Small, Maynard & Company, which published subsequent editions until 1926, when the title was transferred to Dodd, Mead and Company. The time appeared to be a propitious one for such a collection. The most popular magazines of the day featured short fiction prominently and frequently; the best authors were well-known and well-paid. More importantly, there was a nascent movement toward higher standards and greater experimentation among certain American writers. O'Brien capitalized on this ...
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Magazines Established In 1984
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Non-profit Publishers
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Literary Publishing Companies
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ...
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Publishing Companies Established In 1984
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include electronic publishing such as ebooks, academic journals, micropublishing, websites, blogs, video game publishing, and the like. Publishing may produce private, club, commons or public goods and may be conducted as a commercial, public, social or community activity. The commercial publishing industry ranges from large multinational conglomerates such as Bertelsmann, RELX, Pearson and Thomson Reuters to thousands of small independents. It has various divisions such as trade/retail publishing of fiction and non-fiction, educational publishing (k-12) and academic and scientific publishing. Publishing is also undertaken by governments, civi ...
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Book Publishing Companies Of The United States
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ...
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Defunct Literary Magazines Published In The United States
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List Of Literary Magazines
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Corrina Wycoff
Corrina Wycoff is an American writer known for her 2007 short story collection '' O Street'' and 2016 novel '' Damascus House''. ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Education and career Wycoff holds an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and taught English at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington. Her fiction and essays have appeared in '' Other Voices'', ''New Letters'', '' Coal City Review'', '' The Oregon Quarterly'', ''Brainchild'', ''Out of Line'', ''Golden Handcuffs'', and the anthologies '' Best Essays Northwest'' and '' The Clear Cut Future''. Michelle Abbott wrote of Wycoff in the ''Puyallup Post'': Works * " Afterbirth" (short story), Heartland Short Fiction Prize (1999), published in ''New Letters'' (1999) and ''O Street'' (2007), and excerpted in ''Oregon Quarterly'' (2007) * " Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" (short story), Heartland Shor ...
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O Street
''O Street'' is a 2007 short story collection written by Corrina Wycoff. Called a "novel-in-stories" by OV Books, it explores the troubled life of young professional Beth Dinard from the perspective of the character herself as well as others around her. ''O Street'' was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007. Contents The ten stories collected in ''O Street'' revolve around the life of young professional Elizabeth Dinard, who has escaped an impoverished and abusive childhood in New Jersey but still suffers its effects in adulthood. Each story, told from the perspective of Beth herself or one of the people around her, explores a different period of her troubled life. * "The Wrong Place in the World" * "September 1981" * "Visiting Mrs. Ferullo" * "Where We're Going This Time" * "O Street" * "Leaving" * "Afterbirth" * "The Shell Game" * "The Cat" * "Read Me Through the Bardo, Won't You?" Themes In a 2007 interview with '' Time O ...
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Simplify (short Story Collection)
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