GOOD THINGS TO READ ON THE WEB

The Barcelona Review International review of contemporary fiction. English, Spanish, and French translations available for new and established authors of excellent fiction, presented bi-monthly.

The Blue Moon Review Short fiction, non-fiction and poetry; includes the Cafe Blue and a writers' workshop.

Clean Sheets Magazine "The best erotic writing, delivered fresh weekly." Articles, fiction, poetry, art, and reviews.

The Cortland Review An online poetry magazine with everything available in both text and real audio, updated monthly.

Exquisite Corpse A journal of letters and life, edited by Andrei Codrescu.

Granta Excerpts from the print quarterly, book reviews, author information.

Hispanic Magazine Monthly zine considered the premier publication for Hispanic Americans.

The Iowa Review Hypertext fiction and poetry available on the Web site; home of the literary quarterly published by the University of Iowa.

Literary Kicks Divided into four main areas -- the beat generation, transcendental America, La Boheme, and the summer of love. Articles, information, road stories, discussion boards.

The Mississippi Review An online edition of back issues of the well-known quarterly review, primarily devoted to short fiction.

The Missouri Review A good online selection of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction from the print review.

MojoWire Celebrating 25 years of raising hell -- the online edition of Mother Jones.

Nerve The magazine of "literate smut" -- fiction, articles, poetry, photography.

The Onion Satirical news magazine, the very best.

The Paris Review Excerpted teasers from the current print issues; some complete fiction, poetry, and interviews are archived.

Pif Quarterly literary zine, with poetry, short fiction, reviews, interviews, and 100,000 readers per month.

Ploughshares Includes selections from past and current print issues, book recommendations, and author information.

Poems Niederngasse A classy monthly poetry zine with online editions in English, German, and Spanish.

Poetry Daily A daily poem published from existing books and journals. A one year archive of published poems is available, along with a daily poetry newsletter.

Recursive Angel An excursion into the poetics of the mind - monthly poetry, fiction, and art.

The Richmond Review The U.K.'s first online review, with short fiction, essays, poetry, interviews and reviews. Updated monthly.

Salon The biggest online magazine (3 million readers), with daily sections for news, politics, life, people, arts, sex, and technology. Now offering "premium" (paid) memberships with additional articles and no advertising. Excellent Wanderlust archive.

Slate The Microsoft-backed zine, edited by Michael Kinsley, with news, politics, culture, and an excellent index of columnists, pundits and critics available online.

SoMa Literary Review New voices from San Francisco's subculture. Fiction, rants, reviews, news, with monthly updates.

Strange Horizons Weekly issues of speculative fiction, poetry, articles and reviews.

Suspect Thoughts An online journal of "subversive writing," which focuses on writing that "blurs the lines between genres, that isn't afraid that it might enrage, frighten, cause laughter, or even confuse, while perhaps arousing sexual desire."

Web del Sol A "literary arts new media complex" that showcases the best of the material available from other lit reviews, including Zyzzyva, along with original new work and some high school literary journals.

Zoetrope: All-Story Literary review from Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope complex -- recently won the 2001 National Magazine Award for fiction, beating The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire and GQ.

 RESOURCES AND BOOK REVIEWS

Backpack Europe on a Budget - includes a fun link to
     The best and worst airports to sleep in

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Elderhostel -- Educational adventure programs for seniors

The Guardian(U.K.) -- Books

The New York Times on the Web -- Books, Travel, Op-Ed

Peaceful Streets -- melting guns into art

Poets & Writers On-line

San Francisco Chronicle -- Books

The Sunday Times (U.K.) -- Books

Time Out (UK) Contains London and other worldwide city guides.

USA Today -- Baseball, Books , Travel

The Village Voice







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