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Friday, October 03, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for September 2008
Well, Matt Bell owned the month of September, not only capturing the top spot with his most recent flash in SLQ, but also checking in at #8 for a flash published two years ago. You go, Matt!1. (2) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
2. (5) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
3. (9) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
4. (8) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (NR) Feeling Sad by Darby Larson (6/15/08)
6. (4) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
7. (3) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
8. (NR) How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely by Matt Bell (6/15/06)
9. (10) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
10. (NR) Handful of Dirt by Jim Ruland (6/15/08)
Total page views for the month? 96,057, another huge month. Woo!
Labels: Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Darby Larson, Jim Ruland, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 4:29 PM 0 commentsWednesday, September 03, 2008
Top Ten Page Views for August 2008
August's top ten is a great example of why I'm such a huge fan of publishing online versus print publishing. Alexandra Fox's story was the most viewed piece of the month, with over 1000 page views last month. And it was published three years ago. And how did this come to pass? Apparently, somewhere along the way, it got tagged on StumbleUpon, and so users of that service wound up being directed to this work quite often. Lots of new readers for a story from 2005. When's the last time you saw print do that?1. (NR) A Deep Desire for Blue by Alexandra Fox (6/15/05)
2. (3) The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines by Matt Bell (6/15/08)
3. (1) We Decided to Make Porn by Brian Allen Carr (6/15/08)
4. (2) Paper Mouse by Bob Arter (6/15/08)
5. (NR) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
6. (8) The Cougar by Dave Clapper (6/15/08)
7. (6) Disease Relics by Blake Butler (6/15/08)
8. (4) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
9. (7) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
10. (5) The Bone Orchard by Randall Brown (6/15/08)
One other quick note: for the month, we had 96,892 page views, shattering our previous monthly record. Holy cow.
Labels: Alexandra Fox, Blake Butler, Bob Arter, Brian Allen Carr, Dave Clapper, John Leary, Matt Bell, Randall Brown, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 5:41 PM 0 commentsTuesday, November 20, 2007
Hobart #8 Available to Order
Hobart #8 is available to order. This issue is another "flip-style" issue, similar to #3, when Hobart shared issues with Monkeybicycle. This time around, they are sharing it with their friends in the north—one half of the issue features writers from Canada and is guest-edited by Pasha Malla.On the U.S. of A. side, authors Benjamin Percy, Ryan Call, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Ira Sukrungruang, Chris Bachelder, William Donnelly,Cedric Yamanaka, Catherine Zeidler, and Tod Goldberg.
Representing the Maple Leaf, authors Lee Henderson, Julia Tausch, David Bergen, Mark Anthony Jarman, John Goldbach, Craig Davidson, Heather Birrell, Zsuzsi Gartner, Dimitri Nasrallah, Sheila Heti, and Stephany Aulenback.
And is that cover cool or what?
Labels: Hobart, Pasha Malla, Tod Goldberg
posted by Dave Clapper at 9:33 AM 0 commentsMonday, July 09, 2007
Top Ten Page Views for June
Just realized that I'm incredibly late with this. Almond's back on top again, probably because linkage to Amato from the front page went away on the 15th when the new issue went live. Speaking of Almond, I'm reading the galley of his next book right now, and there's an essay in there about Vonnegut that's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Stories
1. (2) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. (1) Heaven by the Highwayside by Mike Amato (3/15/07)
3. (4) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
4. (5) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
5. (NR) The Attraction of Asphalt by Stefani Nellen (6/15/07)
6. (6) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
7. (NR) Oblivious by Gary Cadwallader (6/15/07)
8. (NR) One Purple Finch by Kathy Fish (6/15/07)
9. (NR) The Wedge in Between by Debbie Ann Eis (6/15/07)
10. (NR) First Night by Ric Jahna (6/15/07)
Interviews
1. (1) Mike Amato (3/15/07)
2. (2) Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
3. (7) Myfanwy Collins (3/15/07)
4. (NR) Maggie Shearon (6/15/05)
5. (NR) Nancy Zafris (3/15/07)
6. (NR) Ric Jahna (6/15/07)
7. (NR) J.M. Patrick (6/15/07)
8. (NR) Stuart Dybek (6/15/05)
9. (NR) Kathy Fish (6/15/07)
10. (6) Jeff Landon 6/15/06)
Labels: Debbie Ann Eis, Gary Cadwallader, Jeff Landon, John Leary, Kathy Fish, Mike Amato, Ric Jahna, SmokeLong Quarterly, Stefani Nellen, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:43 PM 0 commentsMonday, June 04, 2007
Top Ten Page Views for May
The king is dead, long live the king! Almond actually fell to #2 last month as Mike Amato took over the top spot. It'll be interesting to see how long Mike can maintain that place, especially since there'll be a new issue going in live on the 15th.
Stories
1. (2) Heaven by the Highwayside by Mike Amato (3/15/07)
2. (1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
3. (3) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
4. (5) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
5. (6) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
6. (4) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
7. (7) There Swells and Jets a Heart by Rusty Barnes (3/15/07)
8. (8) Miss Hempstead's Brother by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/07)
9. (NR) Seven in the Morning by Max Ruback (3/15/07)
10. (9) Baby in a Jar by Tom Saunders (3/15/07)
Interviews
1. (6) Mike Amato (3/15/07)
2. (1) Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
3. (NR) Thomas Kearnes (12/15/06)
4. (2) Holly Selph (3/15/07)
5. (9) Stefani Nellen (3/15/07)
6. (10) Jeff Landon (6/15/06)
7. (NR) Myfanwy Collins (3/15/07)
8. (3) Rusty Barnes (3/15/07)
9. (NR) Spencer Dew (10/15/04)
10. (NR) Ann Walters (3/15/07)
Labels: Elizabeth Ellen, Jeff Landon, John Leary, Max Ruback, Mike Amato, Myfanwy Collins, Rusty Barnes, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Tom Saunders, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 11:44 AM 0 commentsFriday, May 04, 2007
Top Ten Page Views for April
Almond is still #1, but he was seriously challenged last month by Mike Amato, whose story had only 75 less page views than Steve's. Since I'm late posting this time around, I took a little time to delve a little more deeply. 54 stories last month had 100 or more page views. Pretty cool. Also, after the top ten page views of stories, I'm including the top ten page views for interviews.
Stories
1. (1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. (5) Heaven by the Highwayside by Mike Amato (3/15/07)
3. (NR) 8x10 by Elizabeth Ellen (12/15/06)
4. (2) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
5. (6) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
6. (4) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
7. (8) There Swells and Jets a Heart by Rusty Barnes (3/15/07)
8. (7) Miss Hempstead's Brother by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/07)
9. (NR) Baby in a Jar by Tom Saunders (3/15/07)
10. (9) The Color of Moths by Holly Selph (3/15/07)
Interviews
1. Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
2. Holly Selph (3/15/07)
3. Rusty Barnes (3/15/07)
4. Robert Travieso (3/15/07)
5. John Leary (3/15/07)
6. Mike Amato (3/15/07)
7. Jeff Vande Zende (3/15/07)
8. Max Ruback (3/15/07)
9. Stefani Nellen (3/15/07)
10. Jeff Landon (6/15/06)
Labels: Elizabeth Ellen, Holly Selph, Jeff Landon, John Leary, Mike Amato, Myfanwy Collins, Rusty Barnes, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Tom Saunders, Top Ten
posted by Dave Clapper at 3:19 PM 0 commentsMonday, April 02, 2007
Top Ten Page Views for March
Almond's at the top, as usual, although his page views dipped below a thousand for the first time in ages. I wouldn't be too surprised to see his usual place usurped in the months to come. Except for the top three, all of the top ten are stories published in the middle of last month.
1. (1) Pornography by Steve Almond (6/15/05)
2. (3) Five Fat Men in a Hot Tub by Jeff Landon (9/15/05)
3. (2) A Deep Desire for Blue by Alexandra Fox (6/15/05)
4. (NR) This Is What You Left Behind by Tod Goldberg (3/15/07)
5. (NR) Heaven by the Highwayside by Mike Amato (3/15/07)
6. (NR) Ten Very Short Stories by John Leary (3/15/07)
7. (NR) Miss Hempstead's Brother by Myfanwy Collins (3/15/07)
8. (NR) There Swells and Jets a Heart by Rusty Barnes (3/15/07)
9. (NR) The Color of Moths by Holly Selph (3/15/07)
10. (NR) Seven in the Morning by Max Ruback (3/15/07)
Labels: Alexandra Fox, Holly Selph, Jeff Landon, John Leary, Max Ruback, Mike Amato, Myfanwy Collins, Rusty Barnes, SmokeLong Quarterly, Steve Almond, Tod Goldberg, Top Ten
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