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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Falafel Salad Soup
Back in the 1930s, magazines like the Yale Review or VQR saw maybe 500 submissions in a year; today, we receive more like 15,000. This is due partly to a shift in our culture from a society that believed in hierarchy to one that believes in a level playing field. This is good—to a point. [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Ignorance as an Asset
I’ve always had a mild disdain for the literary industry. I’m not sure exactly where it comes from, but I can trace it as far back as my second semester of college, at which point I’d already realized that I preferred working with phonemes to working with phosphates, but was still resistant to declaring an [...]
