Apr
15
Magazines that are books, or books that are magazines, terrify me. The sheer size of the issues provides unnecessary pressure to read the beasts from cover-to-cover (especially when you factor in the Canadian subscription rate for an American publication) even though, magazines, typically, aren’t read in this way (from cover-to-cover).
The book-mags miss the bites most publications have whittled their features down to (surveys, Q&As, Top 10 lists and more) but somehow never really shed the whole I’m-not-a-book-just-a-big-thick-mag status. (Perhaps if these volumes were catalogued in the fiction aisle, instead of the magazine aisle at bookstores, the significance of what these book-mags are all about might change.)
So imagine my surprise when I was actually drawn to a book-mag this last week, neatly shelved at the library. (No deterring context of any kind; and no subscription pressure either!) Read more
