NP: New Yorker Fiction / Lit Quarterlies

[rich]

mostly, the Ny'er publishes shitty fiction. however, there is something
worthwhile once or twice a year.

e.g., two stories by martin amis this year:  one on saddam's double and
another called the last day of mohammed atta. both were very good.

the atlantic dropped fiction for the most part, though it does publish a
fiction issue once a year.

harpers is the other.

sad to say it's of the MFA, navel gazing, epiphany-like pedestrian handjob
variety

rich

On 5/8/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/
>
> I am referring to Matthew Klam's ADINA, ASTRID, CHIPEWEE, JASMINE.
>
> I've only rarely been a fan of any of the fiction that appears in the
> New Yorker, so I don't tend to read it, but I was at work on my lunch
> break and had run out of things to look at.  This, to me, is pretty
> crappy, boring writing.  Am I missing something?
>
> For that matter, does anyone out there recommend a lit mag that not
> only focuses on craft, but content as well?  All too often I'll open
> up a lit mag and find some undeniably well-worded story that is just
> completely empty to my senses as far as content goes.  Like they're
> primarily dedicated to writers who are only reading them so that they
> can figure out if they should submit there.  Like the actual story
> just doesn't matter.  Perhaps my vision is skewed on the issue, I'm
> certainly no literature quarterly / whatever else connoisseur, it just
> seems like every time I try to give a quarterly a shot I'm generally
> disappointed.
>
>
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