"After some long years of a general feeling in the publishing world that “nobody” was reading anymore, that literary dialogue was dying, and so on… new technological forums and opportunities have breathed new life into this community and into the discussions over the past 5 years or so."
Part of a long, remarkably un-flame-war-y discussion in the comments to VQR editor Ted Genoways’s Mother Jones piece on the troubles of old-school literary journals. A smart discussion on the state of small presses and online vs. print literary journals is ably continued by Roxane Gay and others over at HTML Giant.
