The publishing standards set by these companies provide a sense of structure, tradition, and guarantee excellence.
Similar to little magazines, independent publishers and small presses often stand in the shadows of companies within the industry’s “Big 5”: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
A sound approach to conceive of such shifts is to explore presses that have fostered radical change. Small presses call for a way to grasp the rapid technological, operational, and structural transformations in the publishing industry since Ralph Emerson’s creation of the first modernist little magazine, The Dial. By detailing the role of experimentation, this paper will defend the influence of twentieth-century little magazines on contemporary periodicals, expose reconstructed understandings of industry resilience, and offer a sound methodology for analyzing the ever-shifting nature of the publishing industry that extends far beyond the pages of modernist little magazines. With its reconstruction, publication success is no longer measured by profit or commercial commodification, but rather by the ways small publishers have managed to withstand the continuous fluctuations of the industry. Despite criticism, small presses have steadily maintained a community between writers and readers and with it, a cyclical, reader-oriented paradigm has emerged that has redetermined understandings of industry resilience. Presently, writers Cheryl Strayed, published with The Rumpus and Robert Coover, published with McSweeney’s, embrace the shift that invites reader’s contributions, much like Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Virginia Woolf, who set the baseline for a new understanding of the place of little magazines. In a competitive marketplace, building a community of readers and releasing publications in tandem is necessary to assure both become sustainable. Today, The Rumpus and McSweeney’s depict the unified strength of the small press industry. Modernist periodicals, like these two companies, were essential to the development of American poetry, as they fused global relationships between artistic and literary communities. Eliot and Ezra Pound, gained notable fame as a result of featured pieces in little magazines. While those who were published in these magazines were often unseasoned beginners, many of today’s well-known writers, including T.S. Using The Rumpus and McSweeney’s, I argue that literary experimentation supplies a platform for writers in defense of the avant-garde. Yet, little magazines were undervalued in the scope of traditional forms of literary publishing. Modernist writers who have influenced experimental works of our time used twentieth-century periodicals as a platform for experimentation, and often rebellion.
Little magazines in print were twentieth-century periodicals devoted to literary experimentalism and avant-garde ideas. Both were established after the Modernist period, and as such, their recognition is pivotal to understanding how little magazines have impacted postmodern publishing houses. In a case study analyzing the commercial practices of small publishers, this paper will present two publishing companies- The Rumpus and McSweeney’s-that have fostered changes in fiction, flash fiction, and experimental prose. As an outcome, the tangible connections that small presses are generating have made them a fierce competitor to larger industry corporations and have redefined success in the publishing industry. In recent years, however, loyalty in readership has been the driving force behind a small publishing company’s sustainability. Often, experimental works are less likely to be published. Literary experimentation is a practice, commonly used in fiction or poetry, that highlights stylistic variation in written form, structure, or techniques. Market place pressure and the transition to a digital landscape have resulted in the development of power structures that work against experimental publishers who are grappling for a minor stake in the market. Since the fifteenth-century development of the printing press, the publishing industry has endured several core operational shifts. As the industry moves in a direction that endures several transitions and developments, this paper works to catalog the efforts of certain small presses in this time of technological, operational, and structural flux. Small presses, or independent publishing houses, sustain an independent or fully staffed publishing team that manages a smaller enterprise than big-name publishers. The publishing industry is in a time of continuous change.
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