Instant Crime by Sonny Smith, SF Literary Examiner
Instant City is a literary mag in love with San Francisco and it’s Issue #5 is about crime… Literary Magazines (and chapbooks) get the short end of the stick from mainstream consumers, but if they only understood that every writer that was ever worth a damn was glad and thankful to be in one, two, thirty, three hundred before getting published in the big leagues. And we all know the best work comes before the fame, before the success, before Personville becomes Poisonville…

Buy Local (Book Reviews) by Charlie Jane Anders

Instant City 5 (102 pages, $8 paper) straddles the privy–coffee table divide pretty handily, thanks to its gorgeous cover and interior art and some razor-sharp short fiction and essays. The literary journal’s focus is San Francisco, and the latest installment takes crime as its theme. So Stephen Elliott muses (in a fetish club) on the burglars he knew as a kid, and Sona Avakian explores how a husband’s illicit cigarette can turn into an affair with a snake woman. Morbid Curiosity czar Loren Rhoads leads readers on a tour of San Francisco crime scenes, and Richard J. Martin teaches the Fisherman’s Wharf hustle…

‘AN ISSUE OF GRIT’ Instant City: A last-resort call turns a whim into a magazine full of San Franciscan vignettes by Reyhan Harmanci

For Gravity Goldberg and Eric Zassenhaus, the inspiration to start Instant City, a literary magazine devoted to all things San Francisco, came after they both, separately, had come close to leaving town.

Let a thousand magazines bloom: In diverse journals, a psychogeographic map of the city emerges by Jeremy Adam Smith

Literary magazines: are you for or against them? I ask because there are those Harold Blooms – you know the type: hoar-browed, lofty, incontinent – who declare that desktop and Internet publishing has sired a grade school jamboree that’s drowned out the prospect of Great Literature.

Feeling City: New magazine’s urban fixation by Hiya Swanhuyser

Psychogeography, the study of a physical setting’s effects on human behavior and mood, is a burning interest among the editors of up-and-coming magazine Instant City…

SF Live’s NonProfit Focus, hosted by Carter Paige

SF Live is a 3-hour block of live/call-in style programming on local cable television, brought to you by Access SF in San Francisco. This episode featured a nonprofit literary magazine Instant City…