No Pedestrian Traffic: A Journal Halts

There are too few literary journals devoted specifically to nonfiction, and even fewer focused on the classic personal essay, so we are sorry to see The Pedestrian closing shop (perhaps temporarily.)  The business model for literary journals is a difficult puzzle to solve, and that seems to be the undoing here.  The journal was short-lived, but lovely.  From the website:

Thanks to every­one who sup­por­ted The Ped­es­tri­an this past year. Re­gret­tably, the journ­al is go­ing on hi­atus un­til more re­sources can be found to sup­port it. Dur­ing the hi­atus con­tent will con­tin­ue to be pos­ted to the blog and The Ped­es­tri­an‘s Face­book page.