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BGSU’S MID-AMERICAN REVIEW
AVAILABLE COAST-TO-COAST
BOWLING GREEN, O.--Mid-American
Review, the literary magazine of the English department
of Bowling Green State University, is looking forward
to even wider distribution in its 21st year.
The magazine’s latest issue,
which has just been received from the printer, will soon
be in Borders Books and Music outlets from coast to coast.
The magazine has been available
in select bookstores throughout the country for some time,
but the Borders distribution marks the first time that
so many issues of the magazine have been so widely available.
Now, customers will be able to enter many of the more
than 300 Borders stores throughout the United States and
purchase a copy of MAR.
This wider distribution is being
made possible through MAR’s distributor, the Bernard
H. DeBoer Co. of Nutley, N.J.
"We
were very pleased when our distributor called to tell
us about Borders’ interest in carrying MAR,"
said editor-in-chief Michael Czyzniejewski. "It’s
great to know that people all over the country will be
able to find a BGSU publication right at their local store."
Literary magazines have small press
runs and relatively small distributions; however, they
often print some of the most important new writing to
be found. Past MAR contributors include National Book
Award and Pulitzer Prize winners, and work from the magazine
has been reprinted in numerous prize anthologies, such
as "The Best American Short Stories," "The
Best American Poetry," "Prize Stories: The O.
Henry Awards" and "Pushcart: Best of the Small
Presses."
"It always seemed like a
shame to publish such high quality work and know that
not very many people were going to see it. That’s
how it is with literary journals," said Czyzniejewski.
"The Borders agreement ensures that a great magazine
is going to get into the hands of even more readers."
Locally, the magazine is available
at the BGSU Bookstore, and will soon be in Grounds for
Thought. In Toledo, readers may find MAR at Thackeray’s
Books and Barnes & Noble. Persons may also purchase
the magazine at the Creative Writing Program office in
226 East Hall.
The magazine is produced by students
and faculty of the English department and Creative Writing
Program at BGSU. (Posted 11/27/00)
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