1. Congrats To Steve Goerger!

    Steve Goerger made the notable stories list. Congrats!

  2. Explanation

    So basically I’ve been busy with life and that’s why I’ve neglected the issues as regards them going into other formats. I’ve also neglected other responsibilities. This is because I’ve been busy with life. Also, we launched two new projects — freshletters and TWAK — and so that ate a considerable chunk of my time there for awhile as well. But now everything is back to normal, so relax. 

  3. the shape of things to come

    Hello loyal readers!

    Just wanted to drop in and let you know that there are two new litareview renditions forthcoming:

    One, of course you’ve probably already heard, is paper litareview.

    The other will be ambulamus litareview, the mobile application-based thrice-monthly. Everything is in the works, dear.

  4. Skipping

    Dear Reader,

    dispatch will not be publishing an issue on the 15th of March. Sometimes you just need time to think and breathe.

    Writers are encouraged to submit work during this extended lull. Responses to current submissions will be sent out this week.

    Thank you.

    P. H. Madore, Christy Call, and Christopher Laird

  5. The FEB10 Drawing Event Has Closed

    Congratulations to all our winners!

    They are as follows:

    1. Mike Boyle, Pennsylvania (The original first winner did not respond to our queries for an address.)
    2. Stephanie St. John Olear, New York
    3. Jason Henry McCormick, California
    4. Matthew Baldwin, California
    5. Jessica Storm, Pennsylvania
    6. Stefanie Maclin, Massachusetts
    7. Nathan Weinstein, New York
    8. Heather Fleming, New York
    9. Darin Hadley, Utah
    10. Erica Naone, Massachusetts

    To watch a video of the drawing taking place, visit the drawing page.

  6. Curiously

    The thing I have trouble understanding, as an editor and purveyor of content, is users who want to go around something as simple as a counter script. I’m no longer upset about it, but I do wonder. Here are the facts from the server and the facts which I’ve shown to the world until now, when I’ll manually update them:

    from the server

    from the site

    As you can see, there is a deficit here of 178 between what the site is saying and what the reality is. That means 178 people didn’t want anyone to know they downloaded the document. By the way—not clicking the CGI doesn’t make you any more or less secure; the server logs what it’s going to log regardless of what I put on top of it, although I have no desire to review the logs except in cases where I’d like to map demographics—which region of the world, country, etc, gives us the most traffic.

    So then—please, in the future, refrain from entering your own link. In this case the most productive and communal thing you could do would be to access dispatch sixteen by means of this URL: http://litareview.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?dl/09/DISPATCH16.1109.BEB.pdf.

    I’m aware that the file naming scheme is a bit annoying. That will be tweaked starting with dispatch seventeen.

    Thanks for sticking with dispatch—all 500 of you!

    -phm

  7. It’s true that when editing a dispatch I often feel like I’m composing for the world’s greatest orchestra.

  8. new images in sticker gallery

    Dig it here. Some are too hot for the flickr gallery. Thanks.

  9. Nudity, France, and Music

    dispatch thirteen has arrived to a largely silent reception party.

    It is the first issue to feature a song in addition to the story. It won’t be the last. Unless something goes wrong, it’s going to be a regular feature. Surely my peers will start to do this before long, and surely they won’t credit me for the idea, and who really cares anyway?

    The song is “Midnight!” by Mike Young. If you remember right, he was the contributor for dispatch one, back in April. 2009 dispatch album cover

    dispatch thirteen is the story of a love gone totally wrong only after a chance flight to Europe. Its imagery is magical. It was written by Duncan Whitmire.

    Stickers are not as popular as I thought they’d be. However, one photo submission has come in and is in the gallery.

  10. Brief Summarization of the Anonymity Debate

    Concern has arisen about the rickshaw and ridiculous nature of anonymous editorial boards. I doubt this is the first time, but it seems word gets around faster these days, and though dispatch will always be the last to jump on a trend without a legitimate reason, I do feel this is a worthwhile cause: we will not be fooled by you bastards. It’s shot through the literary world like a damn virus. Even I made a blog post about it which is now apparently going to be reprinted in Rumble. Moreover, there was this interview at Pank plus this summary by the stalwart champion of letters NewPages. So, to sum up: dispatch is operated by the assface P. H. Madore; >kill author is operated by whomever they are, and this makes them suspect—they might not be around in two years, and who will you blame if this turns out to be the case? You’ll have only yourself. So stop supporting them.