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Joyland Night at Word Brooklyn and AWP Chicago

Word Brooklyn is a great bookstore that's launching its online ebook storefront. They've invited Joyland to put together a reading and talk this February 8 at 7PM. I'll be reading—maybe from The Consumed Guide, definitely from I, Tania—along with my co-publisher Emily Schultz and Joyland author Jim Hanas.  We'll be giving away print copies of Joyland Retro to anyone who buys an ebook in-store. It's a fascinating meeting- halfway-point for anyone following the digital versus brick-and-mortar store discussion.

Joyland Goes Into Print

While Joyland is a resolutely weekly, free, online publication, we recently asked—given the ease of no stress printing these days—what if you could take away a bit of Joyland as a lovely conversation piece suitable for shelving? The result was Joyland Retro, our new biannual print journal. The first issue features Nathan Sellyn, Roxane Gay, Kevin Wilson, Zoe Whittall, Ricco Siasoco, James Greer, Jim Hanas, Andrew Hood, Ben Loory, Erica Lorraine, Scott McClanahan, and Margaret Wappler.

Welcome to The New Joyland

We loved our site right out of the box three years ago. It made a complex editorial theory an easy thing to pull off in practice. But the last three years have been exciting ones for publishing on the open web and when it came time this summer to update we decided: What the hell? Let’s rebuild the whole damn thing. The site is now live with new features and a few more to come. Before it crashes, please check out the following…

250 Books By Women All Men Should Read

Esquire made reposted a slide show of 75 books all men should read. The books are mostly fantastic and the headline phrasing didn’t much bug us. After all, Esquire is a men’s magazine and has always been marketed as such. The problem was that the list was all male writers, save for lone lady Flannery O’Connor. This really does imply that men don’t/can’t/shouldn’t read women and we were pretty sure that wasn’t the case among readers.