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Not very hardcore in the literary stakes perhaps but I really enjoyed this now defunct magazine even though it folded just after I re-subscribed doing a runner with my 25 quid. I would love to find 1,3 and 7 which I missed out on - anyone got any ideas where I might look?, I'd pay quite a bit (does that make me sound dirty? ;))
Anyone else catch its brief championing of flashiness over substance?

― Tamsin Leckie (Pug), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah and throw about any recommendations of other great literary magazines that I might try instead - not so much the obvious ones like NYRB or Paris review, more like Cabinet - from the fun to the scholarly and web-based too if you like.

(On a nostalgia thread anyone used to read Thumbscrews - I thought it rocked personally.)

― Tamsin Leckie (Pug), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thumbscrew was great. You can read some of the back issues here: http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/index.asp?id=18

The Enthusiast should be good cos it's done by Ian Sansom (who used to write the best articles for Thumbscrew), but it still seems too much in awe of McSweeneys.

Cabinet is good, yes. There's a pretty good guide to similar mags in the current issue of Frieze.

I wish there were a decent Brit Lit mag. Zembla looked pretty but it didn't come close!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

American, but new http://www.apublicspace.org

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Thursday, 29 June 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

We've got The Stinging Fly as well, which is good, for fiction, poetry and some interviews.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 29 June 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Shit!

I threw 1 and 3 in the bin last week.

― Navek Rednam (Navek Rednam), Friday, 30 June 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

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