theparisreview

A handful of our favorites: Foxing Quarterly, n+1, The White Review (founded by a former Paris Review intern), The New York Review of Books, The Public Domain Review, The New York Tyrant, to name just a few.

The salutation. (Anything that doesn't come from an agent is technically "slush," which isn't a pejorative.)

If you mean, How much of a story do we read before we reject it, then, as a general rule: first five pages, last five pages.

It has to do with whether they hit the return key.

Norman Mailer's thumb.

"This is badass. We should never do anything but this." —Lorin