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Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel

May 10, 2013

“All the elements of this novel that could usher in clichés instead somersault through our expectations.” Amy Feltman Reviews

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Review of The Potty Mouth at the Table

May 6, 2013

Jaime R. Herndon reviews a new essay collection from humor writer Laurie Notaro

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La Boutique Obscure by Georges Perec

April 30, 2013

We have come to know him as an author who thrives on constraint; here we are granted access to Perec in his freest incarnation. Javier Fuentes reviews.

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OUR MISSION

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. We were founded in 1977 and continue to be one of the few national literary journals entirely edited, designed, and produced by students. You’ll find that our minds are open, our interests diverse. We solicit manuscripts from writers we love and select the most exciting finds from our virtual submission box. Above all, our commitment is to our readers—to producing a collection that informs, surprises, challenges, and inspires.

OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Over the years, the journal has published National Book Award-winners and Nobel laureates, as well as early writing by then-lesser known talents including Tom Perrotta’s first short story and early poems by Alicia Ostriker and Suji Kwock Kim.

Our archives include work by Raymond Carver, Jorge Luis Borges, Lorrie Moore, Louise Glück, Fred Chappell, Kara Walker, Jane Kenyon, James Tate, Philip Gourevitch, Lydia Davis, Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, Phillip Lopate, Ha Jin, Jonathan Lethem, Italo Calvino, John D’Agata, Jack Pierson, Sam Lipsyte, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Safran Foer, Wayne Koestenbaum, Deb Olin Unferth, Timothy Liu, and Etgar Keret.

More recent issues have featured new work by Lydia Millet, Diane Williams, Elizabeth Wurtzel, David Shields, Gary Snyder, and Paul Muldoon, as well as interviews with Susan Orlean and Michael Ondaatje.

OUR STAFF

Editor-in-Chief Laura Thomas
Managing Editor Jaime Green
Business Manager Madeline Felix
Nonfiction Editor Nick Neely
Poetry Editor Liam Powell
Fiction Editor Matt Gallagher
Art Editor Kate Peterson
Web Editor Grant Bergland
Contests, Readings & Promotions Manager Crystal Kim
Panel Discussions Editor Crystal Kim
Development Manager Suzie Hanrahan
Copy Chief Yurina Ko
Copy Editor Hope Ewing
Nonfiction Board

Brooke Larson

Brandt Miller

Carena Litpak

Jaime Green

Fiction Board

Rose Waldman

Suzie Hanrahan

Michael Nardone

Sanae Lemoine

Poetry Board

Will Brewer

Gerard Coletta

Kara Billey

Blog Editor Hope Ewing
Faculty Board

Lucie Brock-Broido

Binnie Kirshenbaum

William Wadsworth

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