Word: shit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those people who had been in contact with me before,” Wilkes says. “I really didn’t feel like I could go to those people like before...what was the point of talking to them, they don’t give a shit...
...Yorker banquet. Skeptics suspected that Hefner got the second-best from the best, or work the New Yorker had rejected, and that Playboy settled for B material from the A team in order to appropriate their literary celebrity. Some folks in publishing had a dismissive term for Playboy fiction: ?shit from names...
...that depends on your definition of shit. In the 60s and 70s, much New Yorker fiction had a sere, affectless style - embodied (or disembodied) by the stories of Donald Barthelme - that spoke to a narrow band of Manhattan intelligentsia. Playboy spread its net to include all forms of fiction, from Styron and Ken Kesey to the science fiction of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick. Further, The New Yorker could intimidate readers into accepting its crabby tone, because the magazine knew best; it really was written for a certain kind of New Yorker. Playboy had to sell each story...
...found out last December that we were the new magazine chairs, we were ecstatic and energetic and a little bit wary. But no one else was nervous, knowing that Rachel would continue crafting prose from poorly strewn together clichés without discouraging the eager compers who submit that shit. Rachel has an almost preternatural instinct for what elements go into a good FM story. It’s actually amazing to watch her thought process, which after working on more than three dozen issues together, I’ve come to understand and (almost) anticipate. There are few people...
Nkosi has a quiet warmth about her that draws people in and disarms them at the same time. “Thenji is a real person. You can sit around and shoot the shit with her,” says Elliot G. Aguilar ’04, a friend from Quincy House. “She’s a really good storyteller. I feel like I’ve met all of her Greek family through her crazy stories...