My article, THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF A GREAT AMERICAN LITERARY JOURNAL is up at LitHub. As one of the new editors with Chris Campanioni and Ashley M. Jones I wanted to share the non-lit Lit Hub fun version, which Lit Hub felt was a little less scrubbed than what they wanted to run. Oh, bureaucracy, but I play nice and accepted the edit. Here’s the original and all of us look forward to dedicating ourselves to the PANK we all know and love.  

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We’re very pleased to announced that PANK Magazine has been purchased & will live on under new & capable management. Stay tuned for details!

Last call. We are temporarily re-opened to PANK Magazine submissions until November 15. As ever, we do not have formal submission guidelines, though we prefer to be thrilled by your work, so send us your most thrilling work. 

Dear friends and family,

Please accept this brief note as PANK’s formal notification of resignation, effective as of the end of this calendar year, 2015. We’ll publish one last print issue and two final online issues of PANK Magazine; look for those in the months ahead. We are immeasurably proud of our publications and have boundless gratitude for all the staff, contributors, and each and every reader who has labored alongside us over the last decade. It’s been an immensely gratifying ride. PANK loves you.

Yours sincerely
M. Bartley Seigel, Roxane Gay, & Co.

Noy Holland’s 2005 story collection What begins with bird is a catalogue of conception. The female characters are a host of surrogates charged with the rearing of their own wombs, babies both imaginary and not, and the men are damaged bruisers, temperamental, mentally unstable fathers unaware of their growing broods, lumberjack drop-outs, quick to lose control. Tinged with love and the catatonia and soreness of afterbirth, Holland’s prose forms an ode to the lilt, bulge, hobble, and gilded calamity that is pregnancy, the fallopian galaxy of it, and to the burlesque that is parenthood. [MORE…]