Janet, to answer your question, bookstores in the Twin Cities do carry literary magazines. Among the ones I shop at, even the big chains like Borders and Barnes & Noble carry litmags. Just off the top of my head, B&N had Alaska Quarterly Review, New Criterion, and Poetry and about a dozen others--I just can't be sure which. Yesterday I was at Common Good Books (the little independent backed by Garrison Keillor) and saw Spout, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Bitch, Art Lies, and three or four others totally new to me.
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