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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 to keep up with authors’ families, their health problems, their drinking (if they drank to excess, as far too many did), and their writing blocks. The editors solicited stories on the one hand, and yet at least every other letter to a writer was a rejection, but usually one couched in yet another solicitation, and as much encouragement as the editors could muster.

“This kind of shepherding was an art form in itself … ”

– from Thomas Kunkel, Genius in disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker

“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 for me and, to a much greater extent, for these boys, pop culture was folk culture: our culture.”

 – John Seabrook in Nobrow