An Incubator for Literature

At Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik reports hard times for university presses.

With some university presses facing budget cuts that could effectively kill their operations, maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise. But experts on literary magazines are nonetheless surprised — and worried — by the announcement this week out of Middlebury College that it will cease sponsorship of The New England Review by 2011 if the publication doesn’t become self-supporting.