Don’t you hate magazines that slap up a links page when they first go online and then never touch it again, letting it fill up with dead links? We don’t want to become one of those magazines, so we try to keep adding links to exciting new (or new-to-us) publications and taking out the links of sites that have died on the vine. But since Google Reader is the tool we use to access most of these publications ourselves, the links page can be easy to overlook — especially those organs which, for reasons that remain obscure to us, still don’t have RSS feeds. So every six months or so we try to remember to go down the page and do a little housecleaning.
This morning we went farther than that and added a new section at the top of the page: our “top picks,” seven online magazines which we think represent some of the best and most innovative approaches to literary publishing on the web. Despite our best efforts to keep the list to a reasonable length, we’re afraid it’s grown almost too long to be useful at this point. Why seven? Because that’s how many titles fit on one line. Such a list is by nature subjective and highly arbitrary, and it’s possible we’ll change it up once or twice a year, but for now it includes Born, Cordite, Guernica, Linebreak, Memoir (and), Terrain.org and Words Without Borders.
We also added eight new links to the page: At Length, Persimmon Tree, Viral Verse, Four and Twenty, Right Hand Pointing, tongues of the ocean, tinywords, and PANK, and edited or rewrote many of our descriptions. Go visit.
