one thing I don’t really get about fiction magazines is why would anyone want to sit down and read ten stories by ten different people? You would only do that if you had say ten friends and they all happened to send you their stories on the same day, although even then you wouldn’t, like, what is this idea? Ten stories by ten people? It doesn’t make sense. Or with other literary magazines where it’s like, five stories by five different people, then six poems by four different poets, then two articles, or three articles, or a review of some book, who came up with this obviously absurd idea, it’s the same with readings, why would I want to listen to more than one person read something to me, it’s as if you went to Jane Austen’s house and instead of just Kitty reading you say two hundred pages of a Walter Scott novel you don’t like (this being what you requested, however), local shopkeepers and gardeners and just sundry other people would wander in and out reading you poems, reviews of other books, reportage from down a mine in Poland, a picture of zebra… it’s all just very sinister to be honest