Literary Magazine as Mole

Over at the Goethe Institut website there's an interesting overview of Germany literary magazines:

Like moles, literary magazines burrow through the subsoil and often bring literary treasures to light. They live on self-exploitation, are sometimes short-lived and bizarre, and publish against the mainstream. And they sometimes feel out trends that later rock the literary scene with truly eruptive success.

Read the article in its entirety here.