Periodically Speaking: Politics and Prose: Lit Mags on Political Writing

October 11, 2016

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Join us for a panel discussion moderated by Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) with editors Matt Lord (Boston Review), Katherine Rowland (Guernica), and Dayna Tortorici (n+1) about the difficulties and benefits of publishing politically engaged prose in a politically charged climate and the relationship of the literary arts to contemporary journalism and social action. 

MATT LORD is assistant editor at Boston Review, which he joined in 2013. He's also edited the most recent volumes of the Boston Review book series, including Greening the Global Economy and Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post–Cold War Order, published with MIT Press.

KATHERINE ROWLAND is the Director and Publisher of Guernica Magazine where she had previously spent several years as a senior editor. Her reporting has appeared in NatureFinancial TimesOnEarthThe Indepe ndentGreen FuturesAeon, among other outlets.

DAYNA TORTORICI is coeditor of n+1, a journal of literature, culture, and politics based in Brooklyn.

DAN SIMON (moderator) is publisher of Seven Stories Press, coauthor of a biography of Abbie Hoffman, and a noted translator and essayist.

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