• Interviews,  LIVE with LIT

    Kristen Roupenian on Writing and Getting Your MFA, Interviewed by LaVonne Roberts

    Kristen Roupenian will be interviewed on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.

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    “Cat Person” was published by The New Yorker on Monday, December 4th, 2017, and by that Friday, it was the most-read piece of fiction of all time on the magazine’s website. It earned its author – who was then completing a writing fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan – global fame, quickly followed by a seven-figure, two-book deal.

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    I read 4.5 million views.

  • Art and Photography,  Corona Chronicle,  Poetry

    “26 Letters Refuse to Whisper” by Lynne Jensen Lampe with Artwork by Carrie Wilmarth

    Above: “UNTITLED,” 2020. Oil on Wood Panel, 9 x 12″

    As for saying goodbye, we don’t know how.
    Shoulder to shoulder we keep on walking.

    —Anna Akhmatova

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    As for saying goodbye, I know how
    but don’t want to surrender to these
    changed lives & cautious moments. COVID-19,
    death-o-matic, that’s what I call you. A period jabbed into the heart of a sentence.
    Each day I look out my window &
  • Events

    TNS After Hours May Reading – Good Luck Grads!

    Please join TNS After Hours and LIT Magazine as we celebrate the MFA in Creative Writing graduates of 2020. Hosted by Alex Vara, and moderated by LIT’s Editor-in-Chief Virginia Valenzuela.

    Mix a martini, crack open a hard cider or coke, put on some pants, and pretend like you’re in the East Village listening to the talents of:

    Bailey Powell Aldrich

    Scott Amen

    Matt Dupre

    Kelsi Lindus

    Oliver Scialdone

    Jenna Tang

    Lori Lynn Turner

    Lavonne Roberts

    Jenny Ryan

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    Click here tonight at 7pm to join!

  • Art and Photography

    Lula Bajek

    “Lula’s work is tender and predatory. This predacity is an ability to open a wound by means of a picture.  This wound is a gate to sensitive seeing.”

    Bronka Nowicka

     

     

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  • Art and Photography,  Prose

    “Diana the Thoroughbred” with Artwork by Rebecca Pyle

    Above: “The Carousel and the Racehorse”
    Pen, ink, and watercolor.

    They were headed for the track, one of the ones the Queen liked to enter her horses in. Gavin in his college days with friends had once gone to a track, but he had sworn then he would never bother again: it seemed a habit like smoking, sure to leave you wishing you had never begun, or like the habit of continually trying to meet girls, which would backfire, leave you apologizing or making excuses to half of them, not a spot you should want to find yourself in if you valued simplicity.

  • Poetry

    An Unobservable Force Will Never Reveal Its Face by Brianna Noll

    I thought the invisible
    hand of the market
    a velvetine fist,
    viridian and calculable
    like vectors of rain
    in a dark winter.
    I diagrammed its force
    on the bedsheets
    when I couldn’t sleep
    so it was always
    with me—a flutter
    of huge wings
    that would block
    out the sun if they
    weren’t so invisible.
    I began to listen instead
    to the wings of the hand
    of the market,