Zoetrope: All-Story was founded in 1997 by Francis Ford Coppola — yes, that Francis Ford Coppola — who believed that the short story was one of the most perfect art forms in existence and deserved a publication that treated it with the same seriousness and visual beauty that cinema gave to the moving image. Named after the pre-cinematic optical device that creates the illusion of motion from a series of still images, the magazine publishes short fiction exclusively, with each issue featuring original stories by some of the most acclaimed writers in the world.
The contributors over nearly three decades read like a syllabus for contemporary world literature: Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Mary Gaitskill, David Means, Jhumpa Lahiri, Haruki Murakami, Denis Johnson. The magazine has won multiple National Magazine Awards and its stories have been widely anthologised. But what distinguishes Zoetrope from other literary journals is the visual dimension: each issue is designed as a complete aesthetic object, with cover art and interior design that elevate the magazine into the territory of artist's books.
Coppola's conviction that great stories and great images belong together — that a literary magazine should be as beautiful to look at as its stories are to read — has produced one of the most consistently excellent and visually striking publications in American letters. For readers who believe that the short story is the most concentrated and powerful form of literary art, Zoetrope: All-Story has been proving them right since 1997.
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