 By Stephan Delbos
Returning from the dead requires intervention, divine or otherwise. I'd like to be reincarnated as a peacock, but until I get God or science on my side, I won't hold my breath. In the world of literary magazines, life after death is just as unlikely. If you think graveyards are scary, you haven't seen the stacks of discontinued journals most publishers keep in their closet. But the reincarnation of The Prague Revue proves there are exceptions for the faithful.
It may be misleading to say that The Prague Revue is coming back from the dead, because it never actually died. It lived and prospered from 1995 until 2000, publishing work from writers as varied as Bohumil Hrabal and Abdullah al-Udhari. Then it went to sleep for seven years.
Running a magazine is a bit like playing with a ouija board in your neighbor's basement: you sit in the dark, trying hard to read relevance into garbled words, all the while waiting for something incredible to happen. Once your patience is gone, the séance is over. It takes an active community of writers and a dedicated group of editors, not to mention luck, to rouse the slumbering spirits.
In January 2008 The Prague Revue will return bright-eyed for Issue Eight, featuring poetry, fiction, drama, book reviews, photography and art, from Prague and from around the world.
Deadline for submissions for the upcoming issue is October 31. For more information
visit www.thepraguerevue.com or email
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