Press Releases

by Richard Luck

Originally published on December 9, 2001

Writer’s Digest Names PifMagazine.com and Pilot-Search.com Among the Best, Despite Strange History LACEY, WA – May 24, 2000 (INB) – PifMagazine.com and Pilot-Search.com are two of the best literary Web sites on the Internet, according to Writer’s Digest. “And to think we did it without ever holding a face-to-face staff meeting,” commented Camille Renshaw, Senior [...]

Reader Demographics

by Richard Luck

Originally published on December 9, 2001

SEX Male: 46% Female: 54%   AGE under 18: 5% 18-24: 14% 25-30: 17% 31-40: 20% 40-55: 33% Over 55: 11% GEOGRAPHY 86% of our readership is American, while 13% of those readers are from California and 10% are from New York. 44% of our international audience is European; 20% is Canadian; 15% is Asian; [...]

Copyright Notice and Terms of Use

by Richard Luck

Originally published on December 8, 2001

This site contains copyrighted materials, including but not limited to text, photos, and graphics. You may not use, copy, publish, upload, download, post to a bulletin board or otherwise transmit, distribute, or modify any contents of the site in any way, except that you may download one copy of such contents on any single computer [...]

Nickel and Dimed

reviewed by Tom Janulewicz

Originally published on December 5, 2001

If you are reading this review, then chances are you do not earn your living in one of the professions that Barbara Ehrenreich assayed while researching Nickel and Dimed. If you are only earning seven dollars and change an hour, then odds are you trade off computer ownership and Internet access in favor of things [...]

Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood

reviewed by Tom Hartman

Originally published on December 1, 2001

You won’t find any twee toy choo-choos, squeaky-voiced hand puppets or cardigan-wearing hosts in Mr Beller’s neighboorhood. Mr Beller’s neighborhood is Manhattan, and what you will find are personal essays, reflections, memoirs and anecdotes chronicling just about every corner of the Big Apple. An impressively designed (if slow-loading) site, MBN uses an aereal map of [...]

Fifty Word Fiction

reviewed by Tom Hartman

Originally published on December 1, 2001

From one of the folks behind the smart UK zine Tangents comes Fifty Word Fiction, a new zine that seeks to publish what might be the shortest stories possible. If you think 50-word fiction sounds suspiciously like a creative writing workshop exercise you’d be right: the mag owes its genesis to an assignment a friend [...]

The Pi Process

by Ted Warnell

Originally published on December 1, 2001

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The Pi Process by Ted Warnell – © 2001

Interview with Nathalie Handal

interviewed by Rachel Barenblat

Originally published on December 1, 2001

Rachel Barenblat: Tell me a little bit about yourself and your background. Nathalie Handal: I grew up in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. My grandfather was born in Bethlehem and emigrated to the West in the early twentieth century, and my parents mainly grew up with a French education, and of course, with [...]

The Red Heifer

reviewed by Tom Janulewicz

Originally published on December 1, 2001

What does America mean, and what does it mean to be an American? These are complicated questions with a multitude of possible answers. We can’t open a newspaper or magazine, or turn on the television or radio or browse the Internet without exposing ourselves to the symbols, images, myths and messages of America. Those of [...]

Sheba

reviewed by Emily Banner

Originally published on December 1, 2001

Before I get to Sheba, the actual subject of this review, I’d like to take a moment to explore a parallel that occurred to me about halfway through the book. It’s a parallel that Nicholas Clapp never addresses directly, but which he must be aware of, because it is what makes his book cohere. There [...]