This issue includes eight highly critical and mostly negative reviews of popular fiction (Twilight, Wallander, Percy Jackson, The Last Boyfriend, "The Island of Doctor Moreau," You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs, The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Novel, The Flower and the Flame, and The Draco Tavern). Readers who have been disappointed with popular fiction before should read these. The issue is also full of the usual academic reviews, essays, fiction and poetry you'll always find in PLJ. PLJ is focusing more on popular fiction recently to reflect the interests of the majority of the modern audience.
Author Biography
Anna Faktorovich is the Founder, Director, Designer and Editor-in-Chief of the Anaphora Literary Press, which has published over 50 titles, and is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Faktorovich has over three years of full-time English college teaching experience. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism and an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Her Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson critical book has been published with McFarland in February, 2013. Her new book, Formulaic Writing within Genres, is under contract with McFarland for completion in August, 2013. She published two poetry collections Improvisational Arguments (Fomite Press, 2011) and Battle for Athens (Anaphora, 2012). She illustrated, designed and wrote the poetry for an illustrated children's book (4+) The Sloths and I (Anaphora, 2013). She also published three editions of the Book Production Guide, which gives advice on editing, design and marketing for writers and publishers. She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual and peer-reviewed Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009; it is available on EBSCO, ProQuest and in print. She has also presented her research at the MLA, SAMLA, EAPSU, SWWC, BWWC and many other conferences. She won the MLA Bibliography and the Brown University Military Collection fellowships.
