{"id":5842,"date":"2016-06-30T07:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2016-06-30T07:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:28:36","slug":"glimmer-train-springsummer-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=5842","title":{"rendered":"Glimmer Train – Spring\/Summer 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Glimmer

photo: Vicki Weisfeld<\/p><\/div>\n

Literary magazines that publish short stories are an easy way to get a taste of a new writer’s work without committing to an entire novel. As a person who still actually pays for books–authors need to eat, too!–I know reading is a commitment of both time and money.<\/p>\n

I’ve subscribed to Glimmer Train<\/em><\/a> since (I think) its first issue and, four times a year, it brings me first-rate fiction, mostly by authors previously unknown to me. Quite a few of the stories in the current issue were by authors from other cultures, emigres, exploring dislocation, distance, fitting in, or not. Nine of the 16 stories are written in the first person. This does not mean they are memoir. Their authors used the first-person device to get to the heart of the story, closer and quicker, not having a novel’s 85,000 additional words to do so.<\/p>\n

Here are just three stories I particularly enjoyed in the Spring\/Summer 2016 issue:<\/p>\n