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Christine Barbour's avatar

Serious question for you. I subscribed, because I will always try to read what James Fallows writes. But I subscribe to ten, maybe more, sites with similar aspirations as to community building. Maybe not as explicit, but still. One just added a book club to its news sharing, AMA, format.

No offense to any of the amazing authors who take on this important job of communication but I don’t think it’s sustainable. It may be fine for the author but for the readers, it’s overwhelming. My subscriptions are spread across multiple outlets and I don’t have the time or money to participate the way I want to or the way the writers intend. I feel almost burdened sometimes.

And the irony is, I keep thinking it would be an excellent idea for someone to coordinate all these efforts and organize them for me — you know, kind of like a magazine.

Best of luck. I agree with the urgency and importance of the task even if I’m not sure how to manage my end of the bargain. I subscribed as a founding member. Let’s do this thing.

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JW's avatar

With a little luck this Fallows kid might just make a career out of this writing business.

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