The origin of American little magazines can be traced back to the radical pamphlets of the American Revolution, but it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that little magazines came into their own. By the early part of the twentieth century, little magazines were recognized as an important outlet for literary works. The "little" in little magazines refers not to the physical size of the periodical but to the circulation, which numbers from approximately 200 to 2,000 or more subscribers, a mere fraction of commercial counterparts. Typically, little magazines have provided a place for writing that could find no other home, and have often been used as an entry vehicle for new writers to get published. The magazines exist primarily for writers, though all readers are welcome. Their editors have often founded them for personal reasons, and there is a signifi-cant relationship between self-publishing...