Wanted/Needed/Loved: Katie Alice Greer’s Found Magazine
[B]eing a weirdo is what creativity is all about.
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Posts Tagged: magazines
The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
...moreTo Mention the Affections
Vogue is turning 100 this year, and to celebrate they’ve pulled a favorite piece from their archives: Virginia Woolf, addressing what it is to love the work of an author, and why.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jennifer Baker
The more variation we see in life, the more it becomes less about seeing one type of book by marginalized people.
...moreNiche Magazines A Growing Trend
Niche interest publications are growing in popularity, and these aren’t the black-and-white, photocopied zines of yesteryear. Glossy, full-color print magazines are the new norm even for what are often one-person projects dedicated to specialty topics. Korea Joongang Daily looks at this growing segment of independent publishers.
...moreReading Playboy for the Stories
Remembering Alice K. Turner, the fiction editor at Playboy magazine for two decades.
...moreWeekly Geekery
Margaret Atwood only tweets 10 minutes a day. What is the true cost of caring? Crowdsourcing is not the brave new world we imagined. Can funny tweets change the world? The Internet isn’t forever. But can it be? “The Netflix of magazines” won’t save magazines.
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What About Bob?
The King of the Sidetrack, the Master of the Interview Hijack, a Self-Described Hack and One Lovable Sad Sack, Mister Bob Mack
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Gary Panter
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
...more“Hello Tomorrow”
Last Friday, we were bummed to hear about the firing of a core group of GOOD’s editorial team. With the question “What’s best in life?” in mind, those editors have written about the firing and what’s next. Disappointed above all at the prospect of no longer working together, the team is planning one more magazine–with […]
...moreThe (Optimisitic) State of the Book Review
Book reviews sections in newspapers and magazines began shrinking a couple years ago, or being folded into other sections, even disappearing altogether. In 2007, a band of culturally dedicated authors started the National Book Critics Circle’s Campaign to Save Book Reviewing and now “we remain a nation of passionate readers—even during a time when movies […]
...moreIn the Art Rags
Rollo Press is continuing the slowest book swap in the world. The often-thrilling little outfit has been playing around lately with Linus Bill, a photographer who has taken to silkscreening because, he tells Interview, “Until I made those silkscreens, I was never satisfied with how my work looked as prints….With the silkscreens, you really work […]
...moreThe Heroic Return of the Baffler
After a hiatus of a few years, the intellectually-engaging, always interesting, often confrontational and downright maverick literary/cultural magazine The Baffler has returned! I just picked up my copy at the bookstore where I work. Most bookstores with a decent magazine rack should carry at least a couple copies. At least the ones in San Francisco […]
...moreIn the Art Rags
At BushwickBK.com, Mimi Luse reports on a one-night-only multimedia Lil’ Wayne-related show, curated by Audrey Berman and Pete Deevakul. With Claude Léveque and Bruce Nauman squaring off at the Venice Biennale, Studio Von Birken’s Louis Vuitton-meets-Lil’-Wayne parody is as potent as a neon spliff. It’s hard to look at some of Nauman’s work and not […]
...moreIn the Art Rags
Shirin Neshat is consistently astonishing. In Art in America, Eleanor Heartney talks with Neshat about her ongoing project of lyrical short films, and now a feature, based on Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur‘s magical 1989 novel, Women Without Men. Cabinet presents “Deception as a Way of Knowing,” a conversation between D. Graham Burnett and Anthony Grafton: […]
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