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Q: Over the years, has your vision for what McSweeney’s should be evolved? If so, how? What are your hopes and plans for the future of McSweeney’s? Ed Page Seattle, Washington A: It’s changed a lot over three years, or however long it’s been since we started. Not that we’ve ever had any real idea what we’re doing. In terms of what we look to publish, our tastes have evolved issue to issue, but it’s been driven by what comes to us through the mail — that has the single greatest effect on what we do. We let the issues get shaped by the individual pieces in it, basically, rather than the other way around. But early on, we might have been more inclined to publish something experimental though unsuccessful over something traditional but well-executed. We valued the experiment above all, really, and were a little form-obsessed. But now we’re more balanced, I would say. But it’s always changing… |
