Quotes by Lorin Stein

Lorin Stein

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership – they tend to think of short stories, and sometimes poems too, as being well-suited to the way we now live, with all of these broken-up bits of time. I hope they’re right, but my sense is that our fiction reading has become, if anything, more cherished as a kind of escape from fragmentation.

People

Reading

Thinking

Chekhov’s stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid – forever. That’s a typical Chekhov story for you. Something that you’re used to lying in bed worrying about at four in the morning, before you have the psychic defenses to kid yourself and tell yourself to get up and shower and go to the office.

Kids

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Morning

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it’s needed, whether it’s publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there’s that.

Magazines

Needed

Wells

I don’t know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

People

Reading

Should

I don’t think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have criticisms, I find myself agreeing with them. I think some issues are stronger than others. I hope we’re getting a little bit better, overall, issue by issue.

Issues

People

Thinking

I hadn’t thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there’s any kind of shape, or any kind of flow, it’s random. Gender…we didn’t think much about it. It was sort of interesting to see that women often were choosing women and men often were choosing men. And sometimes they wouldn’t and that was fun. I didn’t know that I would be excited by that, until I saw it happen.

Fun

Men

Thinking

I have the feeling that the magazine can reach many more people than it reaches and has something to offer that not everyone knows who should know it. That’s why we’re starting an app, and that’s why we do the blog. But editorially, I think it’s mainly a matter of keeping your eyes peeled. You just really don’t know what’s going to come along.

Eye

People

Thinking

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories – and maybe this is a little bit off-topic – but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

Bad Ass

Thinking

Waiting Rooms

I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job. All of the interviews that we’ve published are with people who really interest me.

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People

I regret that there aren’t more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone’s head can be freeing. Partly because there’s no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we’re all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

Regret

Thinking

Writing

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Quotes by Lorin Stein

Lorin Stein

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it’s needed, whether it’s publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there’s that.

I don’t know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

I don’t think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have criticisms, I find myself agreeing with them. I think some issues are stronger than others. I hope we’re getting a little bit better, overall, issue by issue.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories – and maybe this is a little bit off-topic – but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job. All of the interviews that we’ve published are with people who really interest me.

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