February 2012
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New Grub Street
George Gissing wrote this in 1891, but it’s basically what I imagine the magazine writers of today say to each other when they talk about their jobs. The one talking is a 25-year old sort-of freelance writer named Jasper:
“I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes. We are not geniuses, and if we sit down in a spirit of long-eared...