LRB succession

[sufi]

as i predicted 2021 turmoil in the royal houses

London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers steps down after 30 years

Influential editor and co-founder of the literary magazine to be succeeded by senior staff

www.theguardian.com

emotions running high up at the grauniad, galloping sycophancy

i really ❤️ lrb still but maybe a little less than 10 years back,

 

[sufi]

it definitely represents a particular narrow strand of bourgeois intellectual cultural space and must be quietly deeply influential
any haters? @luka you never read it?

 

[luka]

very rarely. ive never bought it. i know someone who got into the habit of stealing it from M&S for a little while.

 

[luka]

i wouldnt say i hate it its just completely irrelevant. school essays.

 

[sufi]

very rarely. ive never bought it. i know someone who got into the habit of stealing it from M&S for a little while.

someone else?

 

[luka]

yeah it wasnt me

 

[sufi]

my pick would usually be something glossier or maybe a capitalist mag like wired or economist, folded casually under my arm as i stroll nonchalantly out of whsmiths, but i'd nick an lrb from marks and sparks - which m&s sells lrb though?

 

[sufi]

i worry that i'm losing some of these scofflaw skills during lockdown, fare-dodging too

 

[luka]

you dont need to do fare dodging now theres no dodging involved you just go anywhere you want for free. all the M&S do the LRB

 

[sufi]

you dont need to do fare dodging now theres no dodging involved you just go anywhere you want for free. all the M&S do the LRB

is it? no m&s round here. i also lost my most basic shopping skills, repeatedly walking away from the robot checkout in distraction without paying,
2 x in co-op and again in tesco on wednesday, not even deliberately

pondering whether the digital shopper at the co-op checkout screen is cgi me

 

[jenks]

I’ve been a subscriber for about 15 years now. And no it’s not schoolboy essays. Well not all/most of it. But I get that it might not suit everyone’s taste.However, it’s still the only place in this country for the long form essay and for that it should be championed. One day @craner will finally grace its pages.

 

[luka]

It is school essays.

No it's not school essays.

It is school essays.

No it's not school essays.

It is school essays.

No it's not school essays.

It is school essays.

No it's not school essays.

 

[sufi]

Owen graduated from here to there,
The rationalists publish a mag which Nina and Dave s worked on or was it the humanists

I’ve been a subscriber for about 15 years now. And no it’s not schoolboy essays. Well not all/most of it. But I get that it might not suit everyone’s taste.However, it’s still the only place in this country for the long form essay and for that it should be championed. One day @craner will finally grace its pages.

 

[Corpsey]

I'm a subscriber to it and I occasionally delve into the online archives. Would appreciate any recommendations from current or past issues in here.

 

[luka]

humanists.

 

[sufi]

I'm a subscriber to it and I occasionally delve into the online archives. Would appreciate any recommendations from current or past issues in here.

My recommendation is you don't need a subscription to get into the online archives, their paywall is trivially easy to bypass

 

[Corpsey]

Well I like to financially support them anyway tbh i don't really get why people would beef with it but then again I'm politically naive

 

[Corpsey]

is it written by people who live in four storey houses in west london or something?

 

[sufi]

Me too, it's bananas that they rebuilt their website recently and failed to sort it out (as well as making it slower by cramming loads of crappy wordpress java script in it 😡) but I've appreciated that when I didn't have a subscription

Well I like to financially support them anyway tbh i don't really get why people would beef with it but then again I'm politically naive

 

[sufi]

is it written by people who live in four storey houses in west london or something?

North london