Sunday, January 2, 2011

I'm going to start a literary magazine because I am sick of thinking that I can do it better than everyone else. I need time to figure out the specifics--the title will be a reference to something low-brow that happened in a high-brow novel, the writing will be distinguishable by being very good. I'm writing this here to ensure that I do it. Taking applications, we're looking for people who like politics but aren't ideological, people who haven't yet rectified the high-brow/low-brow conundrum, people who read, people who know that name-dropping Edward Said makes you sound like you just learned who he is, people who name-drop when they're drunk, people who swear a lot, people who are contrarian, people who have given serious consideration to the possibility that they are insane, nerdy bros, hysterical realists, ambivalent post-structuralists, people who are 23 and think they're getting old, people who smoke cigarettes, people that don't push themselves but ought to cuz they have the talent. We want the people who find themselves straddling the binaries of their lives, the ones who've yet to cave in to some given form or meaning that tranquilizes them. YOU KNOW EVERY ASSURANCE OF STABILITY IS WRONG. They're nets and they create intellectual derth; we want the ones who jump from falling mountain to falling mountain. We know you're tired. But we're going to set up a stage for you to prove every delusion of grandeur you've ever had, so write as well as you can and send it in. I'll have more on this soon.

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