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Welcome to our teensy, but genteel and somewhat refined spot on the web.

 

A collection of fiction and sometimes fancy (but usually plain). There's a Best of (So Far) available from Del Rey—more here.

Current issue

A couple of stories have been reprinted in various Best of the Year anthologies. More TK as they say.

lcrw moons over youLCRW No. 21
November 2007 · $5

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This is what this issue is mostly comprised of:

Fiction
Alice Sola Kim, The Night and Day War
Adam Ares, The Curmudgeon
Matthew Cheney, The Lake
Stephanie Brady Tharpe, On a Dark and Featureless Plain
Jeannette Westwood, Two Variations
Kirstin Allio, Clay
Brian Conn, The Postern Gate
Benjamin Parzybok, The Coder
Corie Ralston, Maps to God
Carol Emshwiller, Sanctuary

Poetry
Lauren Bartel, Two Poems

Nonfiction
Gwenda Bond, Dear Aunt Gwenda
Mamoru Masuda, A Primer on New Wave and Speculative Fiction in Japan

Comics
Suzanne Baumann, The Blokes of Ball Point
Abby Denson, The Mysterious Mr. M.

Cover
Tatsuro Kiuchi


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lcrw wrestles with the futureLCRW No. 20
Or: 10.5 years of doing it all wrong.

June 2007 · $5 · Approximately 30 sheets of paper, printed on each side and folded making 30 pages of Good Stuff all in glorious technicolor black & white.

fiction

Marly Youmans — Prolegomenon to the Adventures of Chílde Phoenix
Anil Menon — Invisible Hand
Edward McEneely — Consider the Snorklepine
Steven Bratman — Under the Skin
Michael Hartford — The Oologist’s Cabinet
M. Brock Moorer — The Third Kind of Darkness
Laura Evans — Workshop
Amelia Beamer — Krishnaware
Meghan McCarron — I’ll Give In
Jon Hansen — In the Lobby of the Mission Palms
Karen Joy Fowler — The Last Worders

poetry
Neile Graham — The Tattoos I Don’t Have
Neile Graham — Westness Walk
Rose Black — The Secretary
David Blair — Five Poems

nonfiction
Gwenda Bond — Dear Aunt Gwenda
William Smith — Eleven Things

cover art
Nathaniel Meyer

* A rose is a rose by any other tablature.

LCRW was a Hugo finalist in 2007: yay!

LCRW is a zine that:

  • has a few reviews here
  • comes out twice a year
  • tried and failed to make a third issue appear
  • has experimented with a color cover and perfect binding and may at some point return to it
  • has had fiction, poetry, and nonfiction reprinted in The Zine Yearbook and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
  • is, at 68 pages, too thick for this saddle-stitched (i.e. stapled) format
  • comes with chocolate (we wish more magazines would come with chocolate)
  • is black and white and well read, misread, and unread all over
  • loves cafes and sometimes disappears for days
  • is printed in 10 point Bodoni, a surprisingly good early type choice for its combination of space-saving aspects and high readability
  • would benefit from a proofreader
  • surprises us
  • is loved and no doubt hated with equal fervor but for the most part is unknown
  • keeps coming out, even after all these long years since 1996. [Wait, that isn't so long, geologically. It's only long in politics, movie ticket prices, and software terms.]
  • sells ad space, which is a pretty funny concept
  • somewhat wackily has published a story by at least one New York Times bestseller
  • will no doubt produce a book sometime
  • stops us working on books sometimes
  • would love to be in more shops
  • has queried distros and found that a zine/lit journal thingy thing is not high on their list of wants. [Huh.]
  • always keeps busy, even while waiting, waiting.
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Previously

Lies Calumny Rage WeepingLCRW 17LCRW 18LCRW 19

LCRW No.19

An issue that wrestles with itself. Or, has wrestlers on the cover. Still coming from zinedom with a b&w cover, fiction, even prosetry. Or at least poetry. And long maudlin reflections on the state of publishing, magazines, writing, hummus, and everything else related to putting out a zine for 10 Years. 10! How silly! But what fun.

LCRW No.18, 6/06

A June Issue. Table of Contents at last complete. Still waiting for ads for the Toyota Hybrid (otherwise we are back to a b&w cover, oh well). No. Really. We mean it.
Toyota, you wouldn't do that to us, would you? We wouldn't shift the blame (or the choice) for a b&w cover over to you...

LCRW No.17, 11/05

This was the New Issue. Dropped into the streets from our solar-powered glider fleet.

Now being flown out to you at your private estate by our private fleet of jets. Jets, baby, jets. We gave up on the rockets years ago and the zeppelins are all down south for winter.

Never perfect bound! We are still and ever full of lies. But, hey, this is three issues in one year! Wow. Better not make it a habit. 17 things this zine is doing.

LCRW No.16, 6/05

Available. A powerful, powerful experience. Potent, even. More calumny and lies: no perfect binding. No color (unless it's hand-colored...). Excuses? We've got a few. None of them good. Ah well. Doesn't affect the interior, only the perceptions.

LCRW No.15

Also: Foolishness. Cafe Press now allows adding the same image to tons of products at once. So, we did. The front page doesn't look like the image is there but if you click on the 'product' you'll see Steve Lieber's lovely drawing in Pantone something or other on natural stock.

Aunt Gwenda's advice column.

Mea Culpa: This issue was meant to be perfect bound but due to the chief headbanger banging his head a little too much over new year, it ended up saddle stitched. Next time: perfect bound.

No.14 - Columns: L.Timmel Duchamp and Ms. Gwenda Bond.

14 lithe charming ruddy waiters15 Luddite Cumbrian Rutabaga Wranglers

No. 13 - An advice column: Dear, Dear Auntie and a nonfiction piece: Home and Security

No. 12 -- A few zine reviews.

No. 11 -- Zine reviews. Read "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow" by Theodora Goss and "Lady Faraway" by Minsoo Kang at Fantastic Metropolis.

No. 10 -- Zine reviews
No.9 -- Zine reviews, mostly
No.8 -- Zine reviews, alphabetical, one music review
No.7 -- Prisons
No.6 -- what? Nothing online? And sold out. Pa.
No.5 -- Read: "A Mad Tea Party" - Chris Barzak; "Other Agents" by Richard Butner.
No.4
No.3
No.2
No.1

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Places you can run into us:

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LCRW should be in these shops (or you can use Paypal):

Atomic Books, Baltimore, MD
The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
Borderlands Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
Broadside Books, Northampton, MA
Downtown News & Books, Asheville, NC
Elliott Bay, Seattle, WA
Dreamhaven, Minneapolis, MN
Pandemonium, Cambridge, MA
Powell's, Portland, OR
Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
Quimby's, Chicago, IL
A Room of One's Own, Madison, WI
Sqecial Media, Lexington, KY
St. Mark's Bookshop, NY, NY
Mark V. Ziesing, Bookseller, CA
and also (sometimes) distributed by Last Gasp.

Distribution suggestions welcome. LCRW slips between the cracks -- it's (relatively) cheap, it's b&w, it's an odd size, it only comes out twice a year -- so it's not a good fit for most distributors. We send it out to stores and subscribers (for both wacky groups we are grateful!). Letters to the usual address.

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Try some of these: LCRW, Stranger Things Happen, The Mount, & Report to the Men's Club.

 

Other things we are storing that you might like:
Crank! No. 1

Good fiction once came easily to the world in the form of Crank!

Contributors include Carol Emshwiller, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Lethem, Eliot Fintushel, Michael Kandel, and (shouldn't that be enough?) more.

Say...have you heard this one?
Alchemy 2 Trunk Stories
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