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Behind the times
Jul. 21st, 2005 01:37 am
So, today I got around to looking up Partisan Review in the library catalogue, which is something I've been meaning to do since I've been hanging out in the periodicals section the last six weeks. I don't think I've ever actually seen anything particularly interesting in Partisan Review, but it seems like the kind of thing that might have something interesting. (Rorty, somewhere, says that when he was a young lefty, getting something published in Partisan Review was "the end of desire".)
The catalogue record indicated that the library had holdings up to 2003--and after that, it said in brackets, "(ceased)".
"(Ceased)?"
As it turns out, one of its two founding editors, who had become editor-in-chief, died, and rather than continuing, they packed it in.
Why was I not informed?
Of course, if I'd been reading www.aldaily.com, or www.politicaltheory.info back then, I'd've been all over it, like I was all over The Public Interest folding this year. But I'm pretty much done with aldaily's snarkiness, and politicaltheory is a bit too much noise-to-signal, so ... who knows what I'll miss next.
Editor's note at the bottom of the Table of Contents of the final issue of Partisan Review: "In the Winter 2003 issue, Millicent Bell's poem 'Eliane' was mistakenly cut off. It will be reprinted in its entirety in our Summer 2003 issue. We apologize for the error."
Partisan Review's final word: "contrary". Fittingly enough, I guess. (You know, not quite "dissent", just ... "contrary".)
High temp today, here: 29. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 18.
High temp today in TO: 30. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 18.
( Further weather blather and moral luck du jour, + Meno )
The catalogue record indicated that the library had holdings up to 2003--and after that, it said in brackets, "(ceased)".
"(Ceased)?"
As it turns out, one of its two founding editors, who had become editor-in-chief, died, and rather than continuing, they packed it in.
Why was I not informed?
Of course, if I'd been reading www.aldaily.com, or www.politicaltheory.info back then, I'd've been all over it, like I was all over The Public Interest folding this year. But I'm pretty much done with aldaily's snarkiness, and politicaltheory is a bit too much noise-to-signal, so ... who knows what I'll miss next.
Editor's note at the bottom of the Table of Contents of the final issue of Partisan Review: "In the Winter 2003 issue, Millicent Bell's poem 'Eliane' was mistakenly cut off. It will be reprinted in its entirety in our Summer 2003 issue. We apologize for the error."
Partisan Review's final word: "contrary". Fittingly enough, I guess. (You know, not quite "dissent", just ... "contrary".)
High temp today, here: 29. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 18.
High temp today in TO: 30. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 18.
( Further weather blather and moral luck du jour, + Meno )
