“People die of exposure.” This is a line I’ve used a few times and it gets some laughs, mainly from creatives who feel it all too well. A life spent in art is one in which you have to get used to …
Pif Magazine is but one of many online literary journals. In February, we were flattered to be recognized as “prominent” and approached for advice and counsel by SUNY Geneseo students preparing to launch their own collegiate online journal. As part of their research, Christina Mortellaro contacted us to inquire …
The press release rocketed across the wires. Nearly instantaneously every gossip and celebrity rag from Miami to LA weighed in on the announcement. Twitter was …. well, a-twitter with the hype. Even NPR felt compelled to comment. Hugh Hefner, the demigod of publishing, the man …
"I determined to publish the first issue like a rock concert or major political campaign. We would become a national publication with our first issue and not wait for the gradual progression."
The main question the various publishing types, journalists, would-be developers and consultants who attended Ebook World were dying to have answered was why Americans aren't scrambling to shelve their printed (or "p") books and embrace the books of the future?
This past March Pif‘s editors discussed running an Out-of-Print Books Issue. I said, “Wait a minute. Don’t books go out-of-print for a reason? Doesn’t all of a poet’s best work end up in a volume under a title that begins with Collected, or Selected, or …
What does it mean for a book to be "out-of-print" in a universe composed less of ink on paper than of bits in motion?
If you haven't written a bestseller, it doesn't mean you're doomed. Matthew Pakula explores the business of keeping books in print.
Richard Yates (1926-1992) was known as the “great writer of the Age of Anxiety,” a man who wrote deftly about lostness. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally …
CK Tower, Poetry Editor for Recursive Angel, looks at the importance of ezines in breaking down the barriers between writers and publishers.
