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Response from Book Magazine - 7/8/2002

I always welcome criticism, finding generally that it helps us improve the magazine. Some of the things you loathed were quite popular with other readers; the Bhutan error, however, is an inexcusable goof that I'm trying to determine the cause of--my understanding is it may not have been present in LeClair's original copy. In general, what we're trying to do with BOOK is find the intersection between contemporary pop culture and genuine enthusiasm for classic and contemporary literature. I hope you'll find us more successful, and more to enjoy, in future issues. With all best to your puppy."

Jerome Kramer 

Editor - Book Magazine

Editor's Note - For correspondence from the supposed editor of a supposed literary magazine, this response seems fraught with sketchy grammar and poor wording, which is alarming considering the brevity of the missive. "I hope you'll find us more successful, and more to enjoy, in future issues." does not resonate with heartfelt sentiment (or even passable sentence construction or punctuation) and "with all best to your puppy," is either some East coast phrase that we aren't hip too, simply shoddy writing or, at the very least, atrocious editing. We, the humble editors of a mostly unread webzine with no overhead, think it's safe to say that Book, an obviously not so literary magazine which assumedly has an actual payroll, faces a tenuous future.

 

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