BOOK EX MACHINA

Books as Objects Should Be Beautiful.

—Ioanna Mavrou talks to The Review Review about Matchbook Stories.

When I pick up a literary magazine I’m usually filled with a certain degree of anticipation. But I’m not usually grinning as I sit down to read. Matchbook Stories is as unique a magazine as you are ever likely to find. “The tiniest literary magazine in the world,” Matchbook Stories is, as the name suggests, designed to look like a matchbox. Inside each small box are four stories, each printed on its own tiny matchbook, with cover art designed specifically for each. As expected, the stories are very short, but what a delight they are to read, not just because they are well-written, but because the magazine is three-dimensional, thereby making the act of opening the box and choosing which story to read first, much different than opening the covers of a more traditional magazine. Plus, it’s just plain fun.

—Sandy Ebner, The Review Review

Ioanna Mavrou and Thodoris Tzalavras talk to Phedias Christodoulides of The Cyprus Weekly about all things Book Ex Machina

Capturing Art in Books

—The Cyprus Weekly

Thodoris Tzalavras talks to Jacinda Russell of The Postcard Collective about Postcard Stories

I am drawn to “Fall” because of the exoticism of place and the carefree nature of the activity that screams summer. It is magical because it offers me, a viewer on the other side of the world, a form of escape. I didn't know I longed for this place until I saw your photograph.

—Jacinda Russel