Slog - Comments on All the Broke Young Literary Magazines http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines I followed Christopher's advice in last week's Suggests: It's a little hard to describe n+1 because n+1 belongs in another time. If Mary McCarthy were alive today, it is the journal she would write for. Its four editors met at Harvard, live in New York City, and like ideas. All they really want to do is go around the corner and get a beer and talk/fight about Isaac Babel or Radiohead or McSweeney's or the state of American fiction or how much exercise sucks. Tonight, two of the editorial brass, Keith Gessen and Chad Harbach, read from issue number six.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:21:41 -0800 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:50:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Why Can't We All Just Get Along I'm sure the n+1 editors mean well and all, but what kind of reaction did they expect out on the west coast? Hatin' begets hatin', buddy.

]]> Why Can't We All Just Get Along http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874703 Books Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:27:07 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe "Getting along" is nice and all, but it's fucking boring as hell.

We should leave Iraq and invade Europe.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874710 Books Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:32:52 -0800 Comment by josh "We felt literary culture had become too nicey nice."

It's interesting that the Believer launched at approximately the same time at n + 1 for the opposite reason.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874739 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874739 Books Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:03:26 -0800 Comment by Eric F I don't mean to be falsely nostalgic, C and B, but I find it hard to compare anything to the mid-century salad days of the public intellectual. Think that the McCarthy/Hellman feud, as hilarious and venomous and ruinous as it was, was spawned by not just personal animosity or intellectual disagreement, but by the fact that the former was a Troskyite and the latter a Stalinist and then wonder, does today's intellectual, concerned with such issues as "is McSweeney's truly good?" actually have anything at stake? Politically, ethically, aesthetically? We treat intellectuals as health food, but if we really valued them (or they themselves) wouldn't they be potential menaces?

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c874753 Books Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:16:12 -0800 Comment by Smarm Where's a link to the subject of this post?

]]> Smarm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c875016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c875016 Books Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:56:28 -0800 Comment by Caleb Here's a link: n+1.

]]> Caleb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c875248 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/all_the_broke_young_literary_magazines#c875248 Books Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:50:55 -0800