Why Is Gettysburg College Giving Up on ‘The Gettysburg Review’?

This month, Gettysburg College (PA) announced that it was shutting down The Gettysburg Review, one of the nation’s top literary magazines. The Review, which was founded in 1988 by Peter Stitt, has been affiliated with the college since its inception, and has published notable writers including E.L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, James Tate, and Joyce Carol Oates. The idea for The Gettysburg Review was first dreamed up by a coalition of faculty members from several departments who were looking for a way to put the college on the cultural map.