The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line [Paperback]

Camille Renshaw (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2000

Pif is thrilled to announce the release of its first print issue, The Best of Pif Off-line! Pif continues its tradition of publishing smart, experimental, emotional literature in this glossy, high-quality anthology. The collection includes nearly forty writers and poets.

The Best of Pif Off-line will exceed the expectations of the many thousands of readers who have eagerly read PifMagazine.com over the past four years. Pif was founded in October of 1995 as a small fiction and poetry magazine with a circulation of around 500 readers. Since then it has become "The Starting Point for the Literary e-Press" and grown into three separate literary sites, Pif Magazine, Pilot-Search.com, and Zine-X.com with a circulation of over 100,000. Pif has been recognized as the leader of "the next wave" of literary magazines (Yahoo! Internet Life) on the Internet, and this anthology brings together the best of Pif's fiction, interviews, essays, and poetry.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A boon to all of us who believe in literature and art on the Web" -- Frederick Barthelme, Editor of The Mississippi Review

"Pif focuses on new and emerging writers - sometimes a little raw, sometimes a little weird." -- About.com

"Pif is THE NEXT WAVE!" -- Yahoo! Internet Life print magazine

About the Author

Camille Renshaw, the Senior Editor of Content Development for Pif Magazine, has written fiction and articles for Word.com, The Mississippi Review, The Mining Company (now About.com), The Boston Review, and other literary magazines. Camille holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and was a 1994 Normandy Scholar.

Richard Luck, the Managing Editor of Technical Development for Pif Magazine, has been in literary Web development for over five years. In addition to founding Pif Magazine in 1995 and co-founding Pilot-Search.com with Camille Renshaw in 1998, Richard has written fiction, non-fiction, and HTML for B&A New Fiction, The Honolulu Weekly, The Mining Company (now About.com), 15Minutes.com, and other literary magazines.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Fusion Press (April 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1928704751
• ISBN-13: 978-1928704751
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,647,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a big punch, April 18, 2000

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Robert (Cheyenne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line (Paperback)

I am bored with many print magazines nowadays. The same things, the same things. Ho-hum. I've been following this zine for a while now, open it every month with relish. They've definitely picked a lot of their best, and Camille Renshaw's intro says a lot about WHY I don't like other magazines. Here is something worth a read, something that will make you want to get everything the magazine has put out since the beginning. There's even a rationale for professional wrestling, something that wants me to buy a tape of the event with the Undertaker/Mankind Hell in the Cell match, and I NEVER watch that stuff! You should definitely have this on your shelf--impress your friends with how in the know you are.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Online Literature I've Heard Of, April 13, 2000

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George Lish (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line (Paperback)

Finally! A magazine that will put a foot in each world - print and electronic.

Collection includes Rick Moody, Richard Weems, Ricki Garni, David Ryan, Aimee Bender, Ken Kalfus, Rachel Barenblat, Tami Haaland - both old and new writers are outstanding! Includes fiction, essays, poetry, and interviews. I first read about Pif in Yahoo!'s print magazine - its Web site got a great write-up - and I'm thrilled to have found them.

Although the first sentence of the intro reads, "I hate everything in print," it's clear Pif's out to make it in both worlds.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Wave, April 12, 2000

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Maloney (Washington (which?)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line (Paperback)

This is easily the greatest work in the world, the new wave of writing. So fresh, so new, so off the page. This is where the future lies, and I mean it.