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“It’s not your standard award-winning literary magazine. It isn’t affiliated with a college or university writing program. It is not funded by an endowed trust or owned by a media company. It doesn’t publish poetry, essays, reviews, or art, and it doesn’t run any ads—not even for MFA programs.”
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“At a time when literary writing seem like a dying art, when little magazines are folding left and right, when publishers bemoan the sinking bottom line, here lies a spot of hope. Almost literally a spot. It is called One Story magazine and it measures only 5 inches wide by 7 inches tall.”
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“It doesn’t take an M.F.A. to figure out the content of a literary journal named One Story. Subscribers get—that’s right—one story mailed to them every three weeks. It’s a paperback work of fiction that’s 20-odd pages long, which allows you to say that you subscribe to a lit journal—and that you read it too.”
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“For me, the act of saying, ‘I’m starting a literary magazine’ was as brave as actually doing it. When I said it with confidence, people believed me—and then I believed me. About 3 days after I’d sent out the first email, a letter arrived with a subscription check from a complete stranger.”
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“The decline in magazine space allocated to fiction has become a perennial theme of literary conversation, like the depredations of commercial publishing or the horrors of chain books stores. It’s something that people wring their hands over but rarely do much to change. That, in part, is why the birth of One Story, an elegant little triweekly literary magazine is so welcome.”
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