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5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb new journal, worth reading years after it was first published, September 3, 2006
This review is from: n+1, Number One: Negation (Paperback)
I became aware of this literary journal after reading Kunkel's Indecision, and I subscribed beginning with issue 3. Not too long afterwards, they reprinted volumes 1 & 2. After reading through this first issue, it's very clear why my dalliance with McSweeney's has ended. This journal raises sharply focused questions, and in this first volume, critiques the McSweeney's posse for their regressive vision, their celebration of childhood as the supreme value, and the tendency for their graphic treatment to quote typographic twirls of the 19th century. The short fiction is interesting, especially the excerpt by Sam Lipsyte. Interesting reviews of the art scene (from 2004).
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