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The Virginia Quarterly Review: Lit Mag Love
[Editor's Note: Please welcome back Magazineer Kevin Smokler, the author of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times and a contributor to the first issue of Fray Quarterly.]
Literary magazines and I have not had good relations. We’ve tried short and passionate, slow and sustained. We’re just too different. I prefer book-length fiction from authors I already [...]
The Caretaker Gazette: 26 Years of Dreams for Dreamers
[Editor's Note: Surprise! The Magazineer is back from a little hiatus. Please welcome our newest Magazineer, Jessamyn West, who works in rural Vermont as a library consultant. She also helps run MetaFilter.]
I can’t stay still. I fidget, I travel, I move often. Until I attain my live-in librarian dream, I’m always looking out for that [...]
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Light Leaks Issue 8: Almost Perfect
[Editor's Note: Please welcome our newest Magazineer, Rasmus Rasmussen, professional photographer and iStockphoto diamond contributor.]
When I first heard about Light Leaks, I was thrilled. Finally a magazine devoted to one of my favorite things: toy cameras! Having fooled around with Holgas and various other plastic cameras for years, I opened up Issue 8: Almost Perfect [...]
Paper’s Cultural Fabulousness
[Editor's Note: Please welcome our newest Magazineer, Kevin Smokler, the author of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times and a contributor to the first issue of Fray Quarterly.]
Recently I read a New Yorker profile of Kim Hastreiter, the founder and editor of Paper and decided, after just three paragraphs, that she’s led the world’s most [...]
Stop Smiling’s 2nd Annual 20 Interviews Issue
[Editor's Note: Please welcome our newest Magazineer, Aaron Matthews, a Mass Communications student at Carleton University in Ottawa who writes for music blogs, does interviews for Maximum Fun, and has been rejected repeatedly by McSweeney’s.]
Stop Smiling, “the magazine for high-minded lowlifes,” just published its second annual interview issue. The lineup is stellar. Some of the [...]
Southwest’s Eclectic Spirit
“Grandma’s okay,” dad said on the phone. “But you might want to pay her a visit.” So that night I bought a ticket and the next day I was on Southwest flight 1167 to Phoenix. I packed in a rush, forgetting to grab one of the many magazines on our overflowing coffee table.
I glared [...]
Monocle’s Disappointing Myopia
[ED NOTE: This post is by our first Guest Magazineer, Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. You can find him in New York City and on his blog, Speedbird. Welcome, Adam!]
As a charter subscriber and a longtime admirer of Tyler Brûlé’s audacity, I’ve been pulling for Monocle Magazine. But with [...]
Vice Magazine’s 2nd Annual Fiction Issue
Vice is a favorite of mine. Yeah, it’s a hipster title, which means it can be hit or miss. But they’ve been pushing boundaries for over 10 years and still don’t feel stale. If you can put out a beautiful magazine that long, I’ll favorite you, too.
Vice is getting a lot of attention lately for [...]
Helio Magazine: Don’t Call It a Phony
The writing is on the wall for print advertising. Print media buys go down every year, while online ad buys double. That’s why it’s surprising that “don’t call it a phone” handset manufacturer and phone network Helio has decided to launch its own magazine. Even more surprising is that it’s pretty good.
Helio Magazine is 6×9, [...]
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Me Magazine: Issue 13: Ryan Dono … who?
Me Magazine is a fantastic concept. Each issue is devoted to one individual. All the stories are interviews with friends and family of that person, about that person. By the end of the issue, you know this random stranger in an entirely new way. Or, at least, you should.
Issue 13 was about Ryan Donowho, an [...]
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