New Dark Sky Magazine Editors

DSM is excited to announce two new members to its team. First, Brian Carr. Brian will be heading up the fiction department. Short stories, interviews with authors, commentary on writing, you name it. Brian is on top of it.

His bio:

Brian Allen Carr lives near the Texas/Mexico border. His fiction has appeared in various print and online publications. He owns several guns. He owns no bullets.

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Second, and looking to turn the poetry world on its nose, is Lori Huskey. She is DSM’s new Poetry Editor. We first learned of Lori’s talents way back when, in the form of a poem she published with us. We’re happy she’s on board. She will be leading the charge on the NW lit-circuit, as well as disseminating all things poetic. Look out world.

Her Bio:

Lori Huskey was born in Tillamook, Oregon, and raised in Bend, Oregon. She has traveled and lived abroad in Europe and Asia. She received her BA in writing from San Francisco State University and her MA in poetry from Portland State University. Her poems have appeared in a handful of magazines and she is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee. She is now an unapologetically single writer in Seattle who won’t be knocked up or married by the age of 30 and likes to dress her cats up as sailors.

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Who Doesn't Love A Hard Life?

Hard living — God knows we’ve seen our share. Many authors exorcise and/or celebrate their hard lives through books. For better or worse, readers are hungry for such literature. Mary Karr can attest. Her novel, The Liars’ Club, sent shivers up the morally righteous spine of America. Now she’s moved on to new material. But will it resonate? Gawker Media is a big fat Internet success story. One of their bloggers even gets to work from afar, in LA. Media Bistro explains. Bob Arum is an intelligent man. He’s such a whiz, in fact, that much of the boxing world is throwing in the towel. But what about those of us who don’t want to work? Stab yourself, of course. And blame it on the Hispanics. Don’t believe us? Head over to the Smoking Gun for confirmation. Esteemed writers are happy to share their influences, reading online is killing reading, says the Times Online, Márquez’s early life is exhumed in a new biography, and musicians tell the tale of their literary tastes with reverential albums. It’s a hard life indeed. — Kevin Murphy

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