''Little Star Journal'' is an annual print literary

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

founded in 2009 by Ann Kjellberg, founder of the book-reviewing newsletter Book Post, long-time editor at ''

The New York Review of Books ''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of i ...

'', and the literary executor of the poet

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

. ''Little Star'' appeared in seven print issues between 2007 and 2017. Little Star featured the work of

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

, Wisława Szymborska,

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

, Les Murray, Ann Beattie,

Sigrid Nunez Sigrid Nunez is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, '' The Friend'', won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. She is on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Hunter College (CUNY). Biography Sigri ...

, Charles Simic,

Gary Snyder Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of ...

, Marilyn Hacker,

Tomasz Różycki Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated a ...

Alice Fulton Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English Emerita at Cornell University. Her awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, ...

, Jean Valentine, James Kelman,

Padgett Powell Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ''Edisto'' (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in ''The New Yorker''. Po ...

, Paul Muldoon, Jamaica Kincaid, Adam Zagajewski, Eliot Weinberger,

C. K. Williams Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (November 4, 1936 – September 20, 2015) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. ''Flesh and Blood'' won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. ''Repair'' (1999) won ...

, Mark Strand, Caleb Crain, Lydia Davis, Carl Phillips, Joy Williams,

Rowan Ricardo Phillips Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet and writer. He is the author of the poetry collections ''The Ground'' (2012), ''Heaven'' (2015), and ''Living Weapon'' (2020), the non-fiction books ''When Blackness Rhymes ...

W. G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...

, Durs Grünbein, and Tim Parks, among others.

John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry J ...

called it, “A very fine venture indeed, everything such a magazine should be.” From 2013 to 2015, ''Little Star'' published a weekly app version, Little Star Weekly, with the app platform 29th Street Publishing. Little Star Weekly also featured music and art edited by

Alex Ross Nelson Alexander Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book writer and artist known primarily for his painted interiors, covers, and design work. He first became known with the 1994 miniseries ''Marvels'', on which he collaborated wi ...

Mary Weatherford Mary Weatherford (born 1963) is a Los Angeles-based painter. She is known for her large paintings incorporating neon lighting tubes. Her work is featured in museums and galleries including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn Mus ...

, and John Zinsser, among others. The magazine is rooted in book culture and the reflective traditions of a number of well-remembered hand-held journals of the past, such as ''

The Criterion ''The Criterion'' was a British literary magazine published from October 1922 to January 1939. ''The Criterion'' (or the ''Criterion'') was, for most of its run, a quarterly journal, although for a period in 1927–28 it was published monthly. It ...

'', '' The Partisan Review'', '' Antaeus''. It was the agility of digital reproduction and the reach of literary blogging and social networking that prompted editors to frame a print tradition with mixed-media. The magazine takes its name from a line from

: "But soon, I’m told, I’ll lose my epaulets altogether / and dwindle into a little star."

History

''Little Star'' was established by Ann Kjellberg. She was joined by the poet Melissa Green as contributing editor.

Reception

''Little Star'' was reviewed on the blogs of ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'', ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

'',

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

' ''T Magazine'',

USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...

's ''Character Approved'', and ''Paste''. A story by

, ''Manifesto'', was excerpted in the June 2010 issue of '' Harper's''.Padgett Powell
"Afraid to be men"
excerpt from "Manifesto" in Little Star #1, ''Harper’s'', June 2010. Review of Little Star #7 by Craig Ledoux
New Pages
November 18, 2018 “In the Beginning,” by Eliot Weinberger, excerpted from Little Star #6 i
Harper’s
February 2015 “That New New Lit: Kicking off 2015 (and the best of 2014),” by Jacob Kaplan
Impose
January 6, 2015 “Round-Down: A Look at the Crowded Literary Journal Landscape,” by Peter Kispert
Ploughshares blog
December 23, 2014 “That New New Lit: November,” by Jacob Kaplan
Impose
November 12, 2104 “Black Balloon Publishing’s Favorite Literary Magazines,” by Michelle King
The Airship
Black Balloon, June 27, 2014 “Ghazal,” by Marilyn Hacker, from Little Star #5, receives,

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

for 2013 “Literary MagNet News and Trends,” by Travis Kurowsky,
Poets & Writers
March/April 2014 “The Mission,” by Joy Williams, excerpted from Little Star #5 i
Harper’s
February 2014 “Word for Word: ‘Little Star’ journal and app shining bright,” by Anakana Schofield
Irish Times
January 11, 2014 What I am reading (Anakana Schofield), by Ian McGillis

July 5, 2013 “Literary Heirs,” by Stephen Heyman
T Magazine culture section
New York Times blog, February 10, 2012 “Writing Adrift in the World,” by Tim Parks
New York Review blog
January 19, 2012 Staff Picks: Robyn Cresswell
Paris Review Daily
November 4, 2011 “Mark Strand, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ian Frazier Help Launch Little Star #2,” by Jeannie Vanasc

May 10, 2011 Three pieces by Lydia Davis, from Little Star #1, receive, Pushcart Prize for 2011 “A Little Star is Born,” by Jessa Crispin, �
Need to Know on PBS
” January 4, 2011 Editor Ann Kjellberg o
The Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC, December 21, 2010 An NYRB Staff Favorite (Eve Bowen)
Typepad, New York Review Books
December 31, 2010 “Afraid to be men,” excerpt from “Manifesto” in Little Star #1, by Padgett Powell
Harper’s
June 2010 “The Booky Man: Little Star and Loose Change,” by Charles McNair,

March 11, 2010 “Welcome, Welcome Little Star,” by Joseph Hutchison, �

” June 4, 2010 “Catching Up with Little Star,” by Daniel Nester, �
We Who Are About To Die
” August 8, 2010 “Best of the Bunch,” by Daniel Hartlay, �
Thinking Blue Guitars
” May 5, 2010

References

External links

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