BOOKISH THE MAGAZINE FOR BIBLIOPHILES FEBRUARY 2016 HIDDEN EXCLUSIVE BOOKSHOPS EXCERPT! Find a sanctuary for your You Had Me at reading life Goodbye by Gaby Perez EMERGING YOUNG WRITERS Get to know eight twenty- something writers who will capture our literary hearts
BOOKISH CONTENTS 18 12 9 The Wonder of Coming EXCERPT: You Had AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: of Age Novels Me at Goodbye Katherine Weiss Jessica Wilde 2 shares how to Editor's Note overcome 7 writer's block. New Releases Story on p. 20 20 20 8 Young Emerging Writers 8 Young Emerging Writers This year's promising young writers are about to shine Get to know eight twenty-something writers who will capture our literary hearts 23 INDIE INSIDER: Hidden Bookshops Hole in the wall bookshops are popping all over the Metro 30 NEW BLOOD: Christina Adams Explore Christina's world of magical realism 32 REVIEW: Flesh and Blood This year's most-awaited thriller 40 SHORT STORY: The Buried Key by Alexander Wyeth 43 POETRY: Sweet Serenity by Samantha Adams 52 COMICS CORNER: Incidental Ideas BOOKISH MAGAZINE | 2
BOOKISH FEATURE 8 EMERGING WRITERS TO WATCH OUT FOR Get to know eight twenty-something writers who will capture our literary hearts by Alicia Berkeley 20-year-old Marianne Teigen recently published her first young adult novel, and in only a month, it has reached the New York Times Bestsellers list. M agazines, according to The oldest consumer magazine still in In the case of written publication, Wikipedia, are publications, print is The Scots Magazine, which was it is a collection of written articles. usually periodical publications, that are printed or published first published in 1739, though multipleThis explains why magazine electronically. The online versions are called online magazines. They changes in ownership and gaps in publications share the word are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a publication totaling over 90 years root with gunpowder magazines, variety of content. weaken that claim. artillery magazines, firearms Magazines are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase magazines, and, in various price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. The Magazine Distribution languages although not earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths English, retail stores such Unterredungen launched in 1663 in Germany. Magazines can be distributed through as department stores. the mail, through sales by newsstands, bookstores, or other vendors, or Once written you through free distribution at selected have to stand by it. pick-up locations. You may have said it The subscription business models for to see whether you distribution fall into three main believed it or not. categories. BOOKISH MAGAZINE | 8
BOOKISH FEATURE 1 2 3 ANDREA STONE MARIANNE TEIGEN JESSICA WILDE A literary magazine is a In publishing, to perform or In the United States, publication is periodical devoted to literature display a work publicly means to defined as the distribution of perform or display it at a place in a broad sense. Literary copies or phonorecords of a work magazines usually publish short open to the public or at any to the public by sale or other stories, poetry and essays along place where a substantial transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The with literary criticism, book number of persons outside of a offering to distribute copies or reviews, biographical profiles of normal circle of a family and its phonorecords to a group of authors, interviews and letters. social acquaintances is gathered. It also means to communicate a persons for purposes of further Little magazines or \"small performance or display of the distribution, public performance, magazines\", are literary work to a place or to the public, magazines that publish or public display, constitutes experimental writings of by means of any device or publication. A performance in process, whether the members public or display of a work does relatively unknown writers. They of the public capable of receiving not of itself constitute publication. are usually noncommercial in the performance or display their outlook and are often very receive it in the same place. irregular in their publication. Once written you have to stand by it. You may “ ”have said it to see whether you believed it or not. Q&A: ANDREA STONE Andrea Stone opens up about her writing process, writing tips, and more. ON HER WRITING PROCESS “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” HER TOP TIP FOR ASPIRING WRITERS “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” HER FAVORITE SUMMER READ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Her writing is phenomenal. ON HER FAVORITE WRITERS Haruki Murakami, Jodi Picoult, and Michael Cunningham, most definitely. 9 | BOOKISH MAGAZINE
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