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We’ll say unbelievable things
to each other in the early morning—

back when only one in three American adults reported using email at home,

Fence and McSweeney’s had just launched in 1998, changing the look and feel of American literary magazines about as much as The Paris Review

print-on-demand publisher

pioneering online literary magazines were gaining readership—Cortland Review, Jacket, and La Petite Zine

That same year, Stephen King published online his novella Riding the Bullet—the first high-profile e-book—and books as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Susan Sontag’s In America, David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans, Joseph Brodsky’s Collected Poems, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire garnered large-scale interest.

The 2000 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Kansas City

Laurence Kirshbaum—former CEO of the Time Warner Book Group—to head its own book-publishing venture, e

She sends me an article from a recent National Geographic that says,

Sharks bite fewer people each year than
New Yorkers do, according to Health Department records.

Then she sends me on my way. Into the City of Sharks

this spaciousness are you absent.