Bananafish is an online venue for exceptional, short-form literature with a focus on wit, originality, and innovation. We feature a different writer and his or her work each week. The website updates on Sundays.

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~ Print editions forthcoming ~

 

Founding Editor - Daniel McDermott

Associate Editor - Elaine Strome

Illustrator - Michael Alesich

 

"Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas . . . Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door."

- J.D. Salinger, A Perfect Day for Bananafish