December 2016 issue
Did you know that Indiana is not only home to at least 15 literary journals, but three of them—three!—are world-renowned, prestige publications? Reader’s Radar is proud to begin its podcast series with one of these, SYCAMORE REVIEW. It comes from West Lafayette, Indiana, published by Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English. Sycamore Review’s Editorial staff is drawn from Purdue’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.
While Purdue’s English department has long enjoyed a stellar reputation for scholarship, it didn’t have a literary magazine until 1989. I talked with Anthony Sutton, who was the Sycamore Review’s Editor during his final year in the MFA program.
Click on Play to hear the whole interview with Sutton, and his pick for your listening, “To Scream Like Goats,” by Michelle Donahue. Donahue is a PhD candidate in Fiction at the University of Utah. She has an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State University and a BS in Environmental Biology from Beloit College. Her short fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Journal, The Baltimore Review, Whiskey Island, Arts & Letters, Strange Constellations, CutBank, and the collection Prairie Gold: Anthology of the American Heartland. Her web site is Michelle Donahue Writes Stuff.
Michelle Donahue
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