The Applebaum Publishers and Editors Series
2010-2011
November 28, 2011: Lunch with the Editors of Electric Literature
Benjamin Samuel and Halimah Marcus, editors of the innovative new-media literary magazine Electric Literature, joined us at the Writers House for lunch and an informal discussion. The mission of Electric Literature is, in the words of its editors: "to use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture. Publishing is going through a revolution. There's opportunity and danger. The danger lies in ignoring or resisting the transformation in media. New platforms present an opportunity to adapt. We believe the short story is particularly well-suited to our hectic age, and certainly for digital devices. A quick, satisfying read can be welcome anywhere, and while you might forget a book, you'll always have your phone." Visit Electric Literature for more information.
November 7, 2011: Lunch with the Editor of One Story, Marie-Helene Bertino
Marie-Helene Bertino is the Associate Editor of One Story, one of the nation's most successful and unusual independent literary magazines. A longtime editor and fiction writer, Marie-Helene has been a music writer, a muralist, a diner waitress and a singer in a band. However, her heart is all fiction writer: her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize Anthology XXXIII, The North American Review (Kurt Vonnegut Award 2007), Mississippi Review, Inkwell, The Indiana Review, American Short Fiction and West Branch. She received an MFA from (no sleep 'til) Brooklyn College where she edited The Brooklyn Review. She is a 2011 Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow and is currently working on a novel and children's book. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is learning guitar.
October 24, 2011: Lunch with Kathleen Volk Miller, Editor of Painted Bride Quarterly
Kathleen Volk Miller is co-editor of Painted Bride Quarterly, co-director of the Drexel Publishing Group, and an Associate Teaching Professor at Drexel University. She is a weekly blogger (Thursdays) for Philadelphia Magazine's Philly Post. Volk Miller writes fiction and essays, with work in publications such as Opium, thesmartset.org, the New York Times' Motherlode and with upcoming work in Drunken Boat. She is currently working on My Gratitude, a collection of essays.
October 3, 2011: Lunch with the Editors of Apiary Magazine
Apiary Magazine is one of Philadelphia's newest and most successful young literary magazines. In the words of Apiary editors:
"We're Philly writers. We love words and the people who love them. And we started APIARY because we didn't see any other publications or blogs that reflected this city's huge diversity of literary communities and the excellent work they produce—including young people, new writers, and performance-oriented poets.
2009-2010
October 1, 2009: Lewis Lapham
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Lewis H. Lapham is the founder and editor of Lapham's Quarterly, a newly-launched, award winning and critically acclaimed journal of history and ideas, praised by the historian David McCullough as "a god-send and a genuine treasure," and by the novelist, Dave Eggers, as "brilliant and much needed." Lapham's Quarterly was rated "one of the years hottest launches" by MIN, the media industry newsletter; Library Journal named it one of the best new journals of the year, and the Utne Reader judged it to be the "best new publication of 2009." The editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine, Lapham in 2007 was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. He is the author of thirteen books, among them Money and Class in America (1988, Grove Press), The Wish for Kings (1993, Grove Press), Waiting for the Barbarians (1997, Verso) and Theater of War (2002, New Press). He produces a weekly podcast, "The World in Time", for Bloomberg Radio, and his documentary film "The American Ruling Class" has become part of the curriculum in many of the nation's schools and colleges. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Lapham has lectured at many of the nation's leading universities, including Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, and the Universities of Michigan, Virginia and Oregon.