Little Magazine Collection at UW-Madison Special Collections

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The Sewanee Review has some work done The staid formality of America’s “longest-running literary quarterly” (from 1892) The Sewanee Review has undergone with issue CXXV, No. 1 Winter 2017 a radical revision in appearance, as well as in...

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Bonjour! Happy Bastille Day! Bleu et blanc et rouge. Collected/photographed by S. Garlock

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THIS JUST IN...a new batch of LITTLE MAGS arrived on our desk today! All this and a deck of cards too.

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Mourning end of PANK...
http://pankmagazine.com/2015/07/30/so-long-farewell-auf-wiedersehen-adieu/

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu - [PANK] 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.

I, Oliver, humble web editor of the Little Magazine Collection Blog for the past 2.5 years, reach for language to write a sign-off post, having completed my graduate career (at least for now). Don’t believe them when they tell you that print is dead. And long live little magazines.

Farewell from Oliver, the Little Mags web editor I, Oliver, humble web editor of the Little Magazine Collection Blog for the past 2.5 years, reach for language to write a sign-off post, having completed my graduate career (at least for now). You...

I (Oliver) grew up in Iowa City, and am enjoying back issues today of the Iowa Defender, which has some top-notch illustrated advertisements for what were some of my favorite local establishments 40 years later, including The Mill --

The Iowa Defender, 1968 (pictures) As a native Iowa Citian, I was more than a little bit excited to come across back issues of the Iowa Defender, which include seriously charming and quirky illustrated advertisements, some of which...

Our library system has been down for 2+ weeks now, for a planned migration, and we thought we'd document for you the mammoth piles of print piling up in the meantime.
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What we're drooling over today: "Tango with Cows," a 1914 book of concrete poetry by Vasily Kamensky, printed entirely on wallpaper and published in an edition of 300, which “demonstrates the sincerity and playfulness with which much of pre-WWI Europe approached modernity" (Hyperallergic).

http://hyperallergic.com/195454/flipping-virtually-through-a-book-of-cubo-futurist-poetry/

Thanks, Minneapolis, for the memories (and the mac 'n' cheese sandwich).
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With brick-­and-­mortar bookstores struggling, and more writing and publishing moving online, material archives are endangered, along with the history they embody. This panel brings insights from the recent transfer of the Woodland Pattern Archive to UW-­Madison Libraries, with perspectives from bookstore owners, a librarian, and a scholar, on the changing terrain of literary archives and what it means to preserve the history of a bookstore so vital to the literary Midwest and the nation.