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“… the magazine’s fiction editors maintained deep and long-standing relationships with their writers that transcended the work. They paid attention to the seemingly little things that matter so much to writers — quick responses to their stories, for example, and even more important, prompt payment (defintely not the industry norm). They made it their business [...]

“Repetition is a form of change.” (Brian Eno) “We repeated ourselves into this culture. We might be able to repeat ourselves out.” (Robert Fink) – from Alex Ross, The rest is noise

“In spite of the fact that I was old enough to be the boys’ father, we were both on the same side of the real generational divide in the culture … To people on my parents’ side of that divide, pop culture was mass culture — someone else’s culture, external to their identity — but [...]