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I love Lapham's Quarterly. Also, what a missed opportunity it represents for Harper's (Lapham's previous employer). Harper's has been famously slow to embrace the web and as a result has been declining lately despite still featuring strong writing. Lapham is an octogenarian and very old school in many ways, but has still managed to pull off the print/web hybrid format in a way that Harper's hasn't. I can easily imagine an alternate reality where LQ is a Harper's vertical as opposed to an independent breakaway journal.


I was going to dig up some old comments by the publisher of Harper's to show how anti-web publishing he is, but the NYT recently did a profile on him that reveals a lot: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/business/media/harpers-pub...




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