failbetter is a quarterly online literary magazine.
Founded in 2000 by bookstore vagabonds Thom Didato and David McLendon, the magazine originally evolved from a Brooklyn-based reading series that featured many writers from the Gordon Lish school of writing. McLendon left failbetter in 2003 to pursue his own writing. Andrew Day, who had helped design the initial issues, then came back to the fold as the magazine's Managing Editor. Subsequently, failbetter's staff of editors, consultants and readers grew.
Since its inception, failbetter has been online quarterly magazine published in the spirit of a traditional literary journal--dedicated to featuring quality fiction, poetry and artwork. In the span of just 5 years, failbetter (whose name was inspired by Beckett: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.") quickly garnered its readership by publishing up-and-coming writers like Sam Lipsyte, Heidi Julavits, Myla Goldberg, and the late Amanda Davis....
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