J;，ditors Note
IN THE CONTEXT OF NO CONTEXT
\"~V~， at good are literary magazines， she often wonders， as she works on one.
~k~/~ What should they accomplish? Sometimes the comments of a reader or a
se_lfV ~，i~ritic reinforce ~e ~gency of. such questions， and this is helpful. Skeptical
，c ，ques~，onmg may trarLsrorm into ambtent serf-doubt without the benefit of re-direc-
tion， of sharpening. On the event， then， of having been questioned， the editors reply
with ~ome notes toward a larger answer.
Should literary magazines be committed to a literary/political agenda~
She often likes to read magazines that express commitment to particular agendas or
communities of writers or lineages of thinking on writing. She believes that magazines
do this in order to affirm the inherent value of community and to allow creative work
to remnate with and rapport other work that shares its commitments and methods.
Nonetheless， her magazine takes a different approach. She feels that much of what is
v A_ uable !n writing is hrger than its own context(s). Some magazines should not try to
o fler， crmcal or h.ismrical agendas or contextualizarion to work they publish. Others
motaa try and then fail. Others should try and then succeed. This is experiment.
Dterary magazines together are an experanent. Parts of this experiment will be boring
and parts will be crass and other parts still will be exciting and this is all to the eood
Sbe feels that it is uselhl to note when artsofit \" - ~ -
~， . p are boring or crass or excmng or enw-
~le， ana to note it with sympathy for the larger and shared endeavor.
~eli~ mn~zhle is， among o~ter th~，a llterary position. Must this position
She wishfully envisions a literary culture that values expressions of confusion and contra-
diction， She wishes our educational system taught tolerance for confusion and contra-
diction. She fears we are trying to eliminate confusion and contradiction and that this
could increase ignorance and injustice. Ignorance and injustice often being relieved by
expressions of curiosity and generosity.
~a p~aps a li~，rary mag~ ne might do well to function as a call for attunement to--
_:... ~b， ol~t~n o，f~lter.n.~， ~ddissonant ways of thinking and being， as they are
c~q，resseo m wrmng. J laese might include rascally new ways of thinking anti being， old-
. fadnoned but as y，~ untried modaliti~， and mainstream but useful or even beautiful
perspectives. A can for attunement is not an exact science.
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