* elimae
elimae, which stands for electronic literary magazine
The typeface is very very small. Teeny tiny, a website made for dolls. The site has a colophon, which is a nice idea. But why not make it more web-related and include a few more technical details?
The submission guidelines are amusingly obsessed with formatting and request a very strange series of punctuational edits involving rules for curly quotes and special symbols for italic and boldface.
They have a recommendations page, where authors contribute their lists of books. I really like this idea. If you find something obscure in a list that you really like, you might want to seek out other items in that author’s list.
The editor, Deron Bauman, has a site under his own name, referenced on the links page.
The ebooks don’t seem like ebooks. What are ebooks, anyway? These just seem like web pages, indistinguishable from anything in new or archives.
The dropdown link mechanism in archives works very oddly. It took me awhile to get used to it.
The books are all sold out. Isn’t that odd? There doesn’t seem to be anything to buy on this site.
Very literary. I’m not in. Lacks the giddy element that attracts me. But I like that list of recommendations.