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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
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Who cares about civilians?
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I'm all for collective ownership of journals but the funding plan can't be: publish a book review that's only read by other book reviewers and bored recipients of Artforum (who got BF for free). I love BF but I've never met a civilian who had even heard of the magazine.
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'Worst of' lists are more interesting than 'best of' lists.
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Yes but the true wages is the vanity you accrue along the way. Nobody can take that away from you.
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Always amusing to place a story and compare what I got paid to pitch it versus what they get paid to write it!
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This is really horrible news, and an awful decision. What a great publication has been. One of my ambitions as a callow freelance writer twenty years ago was to appear in its pages, and it was an honour to do so a few times.
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it’s no mistake that many writers wrote for this and not other places let’s not let this be the end of the larger project that Bookforum understood so completely RIP
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Bookforum was the spirit of New York letters I didn't know I was hoping to find as both a reader and writer new to the city: Original, open to newcomers and new takes, the rare venue that didn't treat style and play as enemies of serious criticism. This is a terrible shame.
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Oh so many great pieces in that mag. Kaitlin Phillips on Mary-Kay Wilmers. bookforum.com/print/2604/the
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when I was young, Bookforum delivered the world of politics and culture that I couldn't access physically. introduced me to writers and critics like @JenLouiseWilson @NifMuhammad @CharoShane @laurenoyler among others. made me more curious and less dumb. as a magazine should
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my fave bookforum piece is Christian’s essay on Philip Roth
bookforum.com/print/2801/the
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Oh so many great pieces in that mag. Kaitlin Phillips on Mary-Kay Wilmers. bookforum.com/print/2604/the
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I'm interviewing Sam Lipsyte and Josh Cohen tonight at Baruch College. Tickets here. ci.ovationtix.com/1091/productio
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Simon Leser on Edouard Louis.
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Charlotte Shane on Michael Pollan and Tao Lin.
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