I don't actively dislike the NYRB at all; it's just one of those things I end up feeling I ought to be suspicious of, like George Saunders, because it panders to me too sucessfully. I have a childish complex about being a target audience. I could pretend it's a legitimate criticism of, I don't know, having a really narrow stable of writers or being super predictable in every way (this did begin to wear on me the last time I had a subscription) but really it's just that I have a complex. Anyway, I like predictablity, or I wouldn't keep reading Kinsey Millhones and The Most Comfortable Man in London.
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Date: 2018-12-19 05:12 pm (UTC)I don't actively dislike the NYRB at all; it's just one of those things I end up feeling I ought to be suspicious of, like George Saunders, because it panders to me too sucessfully. I have a childish complex about being a target audience. I could pretend it's a legitimate criticism of, I don't know, having a really narrow stable of writers or being super predictable in every way (this did begin to wear on me the last time I had a subscription) but really it's just that I have a complex. Anyway, I like predictablity, or I wouldn't keep reading Kinsey Millhones and The Most Comfortable Man in London.