Genre: To Our Readers

To Our Readers

22 November 2024

For my editing and publishing students, I am always seeking accounts of what it means to build a life and career in publications. In an interview last year on the podcast Print is Dead (Long Live Print!)

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To Our Readers

18 July 2024

I’m starting this at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, in my hotel room, at five am, having already been up for over an hour. Apparently, 1) I get jet lag even when I drive, and 2) my two-year-old’s …

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To Our Readers

8 May 2024

Last week, we had yet another great event here in Athens, Georgia. Xinyue Huang and Hanif Abdurraqib read at our storied music venue, the 40 Watt, to a house packed by locals and out-of-towners. Avid Bookshop was …

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To Our Readers

1 February 2024

By the time this issue leaves the printer, the writer Alexander Chee will have come to give the Betty Jean Craige lecture, hosted by the comparative literature department at UGA. I am very excited about the visit, …

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To Our Readers

15 November 2023

This past year I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that most—all, the polemicist would assert—of the major stylistic interventions of the twenty-first century driving the book world now are born out of literary periodicals. McSweeney’s,

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To Our Readers

8 August 2023

In our letter correspondence, a friend and I had a brief back-and-forth about the function of criticism, particularly about how the current economic world—in academia and book reviewing, specifically—is uncoupling the function of criticism from traditional professional …

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To Our Readers

15 May 2024

“Well, I just got lost in the art,” Garrett Hongo said during his recent visit to Athens to promote The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo, his current book about a lifelong obsession with music, stereo …

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To Our Readers

14 February 2023

In the “Editing and Publishing” class I teach at UGA, I asked my students to compare and contrast the different experiences in watching a movie and an episode of a serial as a way to give them …

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To Our Readers

4 November 2022 

One deep pleasure for me this fall has been the full return of in-person readings. My first words here expressed my central belief that “a print periodical is capable of cultivating communities in ways no other medium …

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