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Our new app Little Star Weekly is here!
A mini mobile literary magazine for your iPhone or iPad. In each issue: Little Star Radio: A musical selection by critic Alex Ross Little Star Gallery: An image from painter Mary Weatherford A poem, a piece of prose, and a literary serial, plus or minus Issue #1 James Kelman Seamus Heaney Cynthia Zarin (Part 1) Issue #2 [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg
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Reasons for Hope: Ellen
Met a nearly blind woman named Ellen today in front of the Andrew Heiskell library for the blind who has been devouring books since childhood, and makes the trek to the library on 20th Street from Brooklyn via Access-a-Ride for the large type, so she can “hold a book in her hands,” and feel the [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg
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Long Live St. Mark’s and Friends!
We were most saddened to read recently of downsizing at St. Mark’s Bookshop. “Is this a nightmare? Pretty much,” writes Harriet of the Poetry Foundation blog. “Vanishing New York” posts this alarming photo. St. Mark’s was the first bookstore to stock Little Star and has faithfully carried us in a big pile. In recent years [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg
Editorial: A Cultural Center That Can Hold
According to Mapquest, the offices of Little Star are 1.93 miles from 51 Park Place. I don’t know if that puts us within the range of sanctity felt to govern the thoughts and deeds of those who live in lower Manhattan. Acrid smoke did float over our building on September 11, 2001, and streams of [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg
Good-bye, David Markson
I am heartbroken to learn of the death of the great David Markson. Like many before me, I was drawn to Markson through a strange attraction exerted by a pile of austere paperbacks on the edge of a table at the Strand. I bought the mysterious book and, transported and enchanted, I contrived to meet [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg, David Markson
Welcome to Little Star
Welcome to Little Star and thank you for joining us! In Little Star’s journey to print of these last months, few have asked me the obvious question why, in an environment where the end of print is every day lamented, one would create a new print journal. That much seems self evident. The more frequent [...]
Writers: Ann Kjellberg
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