Canteen redefines the literary magazine. We ask accomplished writers to reveal their creative process, and we pair that insight with the best new work in fiction, poetry, art, and photography—all designed to look more like a fine art book than a dusty journal.

What’s in Issue Two?

- Joyce Maynard shares her drive to tell stories.
- Law & Order writer Gina Gionfriddo provokes a hairy literary conceit.
- Peter Orner throws three bolts of microfiction.
- Stephen Shore photographs the sublime in the everyday.

What’s in Issue One?

- Andrew Sean Greer confesses to his childhood novels.
- Po Bronson handles a suicidal reader.
- Julie Orringer & Ryan Harty couple up with magnetic poetry.
- Chef Dennis Leary builds restaurants of the future.

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