What the World Thinks of Literary Magazines
US Quarterly, as explained by the Onion:
While small pointillist illustrations will accompany the pieces, the majority of the publication will be textual.
Said Boorstin: “For regular Us readers who may have trouble picturing this new format, try to think of how, in a romance paperback, the words build into continuous paragraphs, and you have to read them all in order to know what is happening. That’s what Us Quarterly will look like.”
And probably a bargain at the low, low lit-mag price of…$15!
Actually, one of my favorite phenomenon with literary magazines such as The [Insert Name of State Here] Review is how famous or “famous” writers now blurb them. “An indispensable read!” etc. The blurb being the only currency of note worth trafficking.
