Language Arts

The Best Literary Magazines

 

If you don't read literary magazines and journals, you're missing more than you know. Unlike a typical commercial magazine, literary magazines are dedicated to the art of creative writing, and the preservation and exploration of the written word. Poetry, prose, essays, critiques and more are showcased, and many world-renowned writers have found their start in literary magazines.

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Editor's Pick

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King

The author of The Stand, The Shining, and other great books shares his insights into the craft of writing, offering a breezy, humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer and describing how the inextricable bond between life and writing helped him recover from a near-fatal accident in 1999.

Find On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation.

Read Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Lynne Truss

The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way