http://samjmiller.com/2010/08/25/trauma-at-the-vqr-and-the-paris-review-or-the-struggle-to-make-lit-mags-relevant/ Stories, articles, pictures, and obsessions: video games, queerness, robots, horror movies, genocide, photography, radical resistance, books, punk rock. Cooking. Television. Cartoons. Fri, 18 May 2012 06:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://samjmiller.com/2010/08/25/trauma-at-the-vqr-and-the-paris-review-or-the-struggle-to-make-lit-mags-relevant/#comment-1104 Roxane Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:13:14 +0000 http://samjmiller.com/?p=1059#comment-1104 This was a really interesting post. The Paris Review debacle was handled so poorly. I agree it would be devastating to have a poem de-accepted. I know I would recover but still, it would be such a disappointment. The VQR thing is so very sad. There's little else to be said about the situation but I do think it opens a larger conversation about ambition and literary magazines and how magazines are funded and what it takes for literary magazines to achieve national prominence. I suspect it requires a bit of ruthlessness, but is it worth the cost? I also think about this issue you raise about community. What do we owe to each other as writers? How do we maintain a sense of community when writing is such an isolating endeavor? Do we need community? Anyway, this was a great post. I enjoyed everything you had to say. This was a really interesting post. The Paris Review debacle was handled so poorly. I agree it would be devastating to have a poem de-accepted. I know I would recover but still, it would be such a disappointment. The VQR thing is so very sad. There’s little else to be said about the situation but I do think it opens a larger conversation about ambition and literary magazines and how magazines are funded and what it takes for literary magazines to achieve national prominence. I suspect it requires a bit of ruthlessness, but is it worth the cost? I also think about this issue you raise about community. What do we owe to each other as writers? How do we maintain a sense of community when writing is such an isolating endeavor? Do we need community? Anyway, this was a great post. I enjoyed everything you had to say.

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