The online magazine Lost took a head start on its usual first-Monday-of-the-month pub date earlier this week so they could run “Katrina’s Art,” an essay by Alan Huffman, in time for the first anniversary of “the worst natural disaster, the worst historic preservation disaster, and—as is only now becoming apparent—arguably the worst single loss of cultural artifacts and art in U.S. history.” It’s a significant and lengthy article that will take up the bulk of Lost’s September issue, and if there was any lingering doubt as to whether online literary magazines could attract material good enough to compete with their print counterparts, Lost and Huffman have provided the final confirmation. If the Best American Essay people are getting a jump start on their 2007 collection, they could start here.