DBF Preview #3: Looking for Lit Magazines

In the past when I’ve walked the festival, I’ve always stumbled across a few booths handing out literary magazines and newsletters. The DBF has been one of the few venues that you can actually see sample copies of magazines like Georgia State University ’s Five Points. (Georgia StateUniversity also publishes New South, which replaced the GSU Review). Sometimes there is a booth or two handing out small newsletter-sized reviews as well. I’ve yet to see a copy of the Chattahoochee Review anywhere, but maybe I’m not sauntering slow enough. 

This year, I noticed that the Georgia Review will be at the festival (booth 504).  The Georgia Review is currently taking submissions for a “revised” Devil’s Dictionary based on one of the crustiest writers in American literature, Ambrose “Bitter” Bierce.

 Similarly the publisher McSweeney’s will be at the festival featuring some of the books they publish (Dave Eggers was one of the founders) as well as samples of the various magazines (I hope). I’m a subscriber of McSweeney’s The Believer. I know I’m not brainy or hip enough to understand every article, book review, or interview, but in almost every issue I’m fascinated to learn something new about a writer, filmmaker, musician or other creative type. McSweeney’s is listed at Booth 505 on Ponce de Leon Avenue.