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February 08, 2006
Something To Get Excited About [sic]
I'm such a jaded, cynical bitch, especially when it comes to all things writerly, or more specifically, publishly, that I can't remember the last time I was this unexpectedly excited about anything. I don't think most lit mags are evil or wrong or anything; I just think most of them aren't that great or worth getting worked up about. Most writing isn't that special, or what's being published isn't that special, and even the teeny publications are circle-jerks for like-minded fellows whose minds are not like mine.
So I'm delighted to have accidentally stumbled-- via Craigslist, of all places-- across the website for [sic], a very promising-looking new literary journal out of New York. Here's what I like: this here editor's essay on fiction, which is more like a little statement of purpose for the journal. Just the type of thing, you know, that can't help but be overbearing and aggressive and pretentious and really just stupid in the end. I thought this one was actually quite charming and even moving.
You know, I'm as frightened as you are by this new effusiveness and I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but it's so rare that I feel this way, that I thought I'd share. If it turns out to suck, I'll be the first to complain, but I'm just going to purr over this for a while for now.
Posted by hissycat at February 8, 2006 10:20 AM
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I see what you mean. It does seem promising.
But I think this statement could apply at this journal eventually, too:
"Most writing isn't that special, or what's being published isn't that special, and even the teeny publications are circle-jerks for like-minded fellows whose minds are not like mine."
[Sigh]
Posted by: Karin at February 8, 2006 11:44 AM
The morning sun never lasts a day... Augustus
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound... Robert
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Handsome is that handsome does... Bellingham
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Better lose a jest than a friend... Bertram
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