Happy 10th Anniversary to The New Compass!
Ten years ago today, the first issue of the online literary journal I co-founded and co-edited with my friend and …
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That moment when you’re revising obsessively and it feels like “an attack of scrupulosis”…
“I can’t tell any longer whether I’m really improving it, or only undergoing an attack of scrupulosis.” Edith Wharton wrote …
My online literary journal is now in print
The New Compass, the literary journal I co-founded and co-edited with Michael John DiSanto, published four issues online between June …
“A perpetual piecing together of broken bits”
One of my favourite novels by Edith Wharton is The Reef, which she wrote while she was working on the …
“Coronach for Christopher Drummond”
Helen Pinkerton’s poem “Coronach for Christopher Drummond,” published in The New Compass 1 (2003), is featured today in Patrick Kurp’s …
Sarah Emsley 