Comments on: On quality http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/on-quality/ I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:51:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jess http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/on-quality/#comment-175 Jess Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:04:07 +0000 http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-175 Oh, definitely. With publications like the New Yorker, it seems to be all about the big names. The smaller lit mags and presses are the only ones publishing the good stuff these days. Oh, definitely. With publications like the New Yorker, it seems to be all about the big names. The smaller lit mags and presses are the only ones publishing the good stuff these days.

]]> By: Joseph Grinton http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/on-quality/#comment-174 Joseph Grinton Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:41:45 +0000 http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-174 It's not just the New Yorker. I am usually disappointed by the stories in there and rarely buy it but I subscribe to a magazine called Prospect which has a story every month. It occasionally has a good story but they are very rare. I used to think I didn't like reading short stories but I was just reading bad ones. (Now I have a whole bookcase with nothing in it but anthologies of short stories.) Maybe the people who are writing good stories just don't submit them to these magazines. Or maybe the editors don't publish them because they're not reading all the submissions. I think the editors are often looking for a name rather than a story because the name attracts the person browsing at the bookstand. It’s not just the New Yorker. I am usually disappointed by the stories in there and rarely buy it but I subscribe to a magazine called Prospect which has a story every month. It occasionally has a good story but they are very rare. I used to think I didn’t like reading short stories but I was just reading bad ones. (Now I have a whole bookcase with nothing in it but anthologies of short stories.) Maybe the people who are writing good stories just don’t submit them to these magazines. Or maybe the editors don’t publish them because they’re not reading all the submissions. I think the editors are often looking for a name rather than a story because the name attracts the person browsing at the bookstand.

]]> By: Jess http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/on-quality/#comment-173 Jess Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:52:29 +0000 http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-173 And their memoriam spread on DFW was phenomenal. I don't think we're asking for too much. And their memoriam spread on DFW was phenomenal.

I don’t think we’re asking for too much.

]]> By: filthylogician http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/on-quality/#comment-172 filthylogician Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:15:38 +0000 http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/?p=238#comment-172 Agreed. A few months ago they raised the bar by publishing a story by David Foster Wallace. But sadly, things tapered off quite a bit, returning to mediocrity. Agreed.

A few months ago they raised the bar by publishing a story by David Foster Wallace. But sadly, things tapered off quite a bit, returning to mediocrity.

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