Hey pals.
Just a quick message to let you know what’s ahead for the Lit Mag Reading Club in May.
Next month, we will be reading Zoetrope! The issue we will be reading together is the Summer 2023 issue.
Their Spring 2024 issue is not yet out, and the editor was concerned there many not be enough Fall 2023 issues in stock for all our eager hungry minds. So here is the issue we will read:
If you’re not familiar with this magazine, you’re in for a treat. Each issue of Zoetrope features a guest designer from various fields. Past guest designers have included Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, and others. The magazine itself was founded by Francis Ford Coppola.
From their site:
Founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1997, Zoetrope: All-Story is a quarterly print magazine of short fiction, one-act plays, and essays on film. Among the most celebrated literary periodicals in the world, it has won every major story award, including four National Magazine Awards for Fiction, along with a number of design commendations. The magazine’s contributors comprise the most promising and significant writers of our era: Mary Gaitskill, Colum McCann, Rachel Cusk, Jim Shepard, Elena Ferrante, Daniel Alarcón, Karen Russell, Yiyun Li, Jonathan Lethem, Wes Anderson, Elizabeth McCracken, David Mamet, Ha Jin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Pedro Almodóvar, Ethan Coen, Yoko Ogawa, Charles D’Ambrosio, Neil Jordan, Haruki Murakami, and many more.
I am thrilled to feature this mag in our reading series. We will be speaking with Editor Michael Ray at the end of May. I will of course post details, dates and registration links soon.
In the meantime, Michael has offered a 10% discount for all Reading Club participants. The code will apply to anything in your cart, so while you’re getting your Summer 2023 issue, feel free to order up on other things!
As always, the Lit Mag Reading Club is for paying subscribers of Lit Mag News. You can join anytime, and writers in all genres, at all stages of writing and submitting are welcome. Your participation is what makes this whole endeavor fun and inspiring, so come on out!
Discount code below.