Sunday’s Boston Globe included a round-up of New England’s Best Literary Journals. Salem’s Quick Fiction, published by The Parlor, made the list at #4!

Here’s the article:  New England has a leg up on the rest of the nation when it comes to the literati. For one thing, the first literary magazine in the nation was founded here: the North American Review, born in Boston in 1815 in an effort, according to the review, to “rival the leading British magazines.” The journal was started by William Tudor along with fellow members of his “Anthology Club” - which itself sounds a bit like an attempt to launch the social concept of an intellectual boys’ night in. While there’s no contemporary evidence that this male domestic-cum-scholarly tradition really took hold, Tudor and his crew clearly succeeded in establishing the trend of New England-bred literary journals. Today, our region produces more than 100 such titles, an outsize portion of the more than 500 American magazines devoted to the love of language, narrative, and poetry.  Read More…

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