- Noon (Literary Annual)
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Noon Editor Diane Williams Frequency Annual Founder Diane Williams Year founded 2000 Company Noon, Inc. Country United States Based in New York City Website noonannual.com NOON is a literary annual founded in 2000 by American author Diane Williams. The 10th Anniversary Edition launched March 2009.
NOON publishes fiction and occasional essays. A full table of contents, including back issues, is available on the NOON website. The magazine has been described as a "beautifully-produced literary journal that features the strongest offbeat writing from a select group of literary stylists."[1] In 2007, Deb Olin Unferth told Bookslut that NOON founder and editor Diane Williams "inspires excellence and demands discipline. More than an editor, she is an editor-artist."[2]
NOON stories have won numerous awards and prizes, including:
- Deb Olin Unferth's "Pet" - 2010 Pushcart Prize
- Lydia Davis's "We Had Wondered What Animal Might Arrive" - 2009 Pushcart Prize
- Clancy Martin’s “The Best Jeweler” - 2008 Pushcart Prize
- Christine Schutt’s “The Duchess of Albany" - 2007 O. Henry Prize
- Kim Chinquee’s “Formation" - 2007 Pushcart Prize
- Deb Olin Unferth’s “Juan the Cell Phone Salesman" - 2005 Pushcart Prize
- Lydia Davis was a 2007 National Book Award Fiction Finalist for her collection of stories Varieties of Disturbance. Seven of those stories appeared in previous editions of NOON.
NOON published first or early stories by Deb Olin Unferth, Clancy Martin and Rebecca Curtis, and regularly publishes Gary Lutz, Lydia Davis, Sam Lipsyte, Tao Lin, Dawn Raffel, Brandon Hobson, Greg Mulcahy, Rob Walsh, Kim Chinquee, and others, giving it a reputation as "easily one of the most innovative literary magazines in America." [3] The journal also publishes original drawings by Raymond Pettibon and Augusta Gross, and photographs by Bill Hayward.
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Critical response
The Times Literary Supplement reviewed NOON in its Learned Journals section on October 30, 2009. Alison Kelly wrote, "[T]he best stories in NOON are, indeed, stunning, in the sense that they leave one conscious of powerful meanings not yet fully absorbed. . . . [T]he journal has proved its staying power and achieved a respected position. . . NOON has intellectual weight. Over the years it has investigated, and pushed the boundaries of, the means and processes of communication. . . . Williams's editorial vision ensures the intelligence and integrity of the journal as a whole."
In The New York Sun, Benjamin Lytal called NOON "One of American fiction's finest and most focused journals."[4]
Library Journal wrote that “NOON sets itself apart from the crowded field of literary journals with the quality of its submissions, its clean, easy-to-read design, and eye-catching cover. This independent, not-for-profit annual features essays, fiction, interviews, art, and translation that are as diverse as its contributors, who are both published and previously unpublished and come from international backgrounds. The editors of NOON adeptly select innovative, original, and highly readable work.”[5]
Christopher Frizzelle, editor of The Stranger, wrote "Noon, another literary journal that belongs on the list of literary journals that don't suck. The downside to Noon is that it only comes out once a year. The upshots are that Noon has a serif font, crisp photos, and excellent writing, or at least writing by writers I love."[6]
Time Out New York said "Even if it shares some authors with mainstream publishers, Noon still shimmers with courage, strangeness and unknown voices" and that editor Diane Williams "has a penchant for devout stylists and squirm-inducing topics." [7]
References
- ^ Kevin Sampsell Interview from the Believer, reprinted in New York Tyrant
- ^ Deb Olin Unferth Interview in Bookslut
- ^ More Books Blog
- ^ The New York Sun
- ^ Library Journal
- ^ The Stranger
- ^ Time Out New York
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External links
Categories:- American literary magazines
- Publications established in 2000
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