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Fri | September 16, 2005
literary/ intellectual magazines
It's suddenly Friday and I don't know how I got here. Earlier in the week I read an article called "Among the Believers" in the New York Times. It profiled a group of young intellectuals who recently published a magazine called n+1. I found it suffocating. Knowing that some guy named Benjamin Kunkel has already written a novel with a character very much like the ones I was working on in 'sonic' does nothing but fuel a low-level background state of panic.
But at least,
1. It took me out of the state of mind I had been in the previous week, of reviewing and replaying in my mind everything that ___ has ever said or done in my presence,
2. Their website sucks, so they can't really be that smart.
Or so I must tell myself, for things to remain achievable.
Yesterday I picked up the paris review and hyperventilated over the magazine section at Coliseum books. According to LS I am supposed to get to know these magazines and perceive some pattern as to what types of things they are publishing, so that I know where my story belongs when I attempt to publish it. So far I haven't made much sense of it.
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