During the booming '90's, when the "Me Decade" began its slide towards the current economic decline, Thomas Frank put out a literary journal.
The rag ran for a good long time, considering the short life span of most literary publications. Mr. Frank and his contributors managed to annoy a great many people, but after a time, The Baffler came to an end.
It's coming back.
Thinking that it's just what's needed these days, when business and culture could stand a good skewering, Mr. Frank is resurrecting The Baffler for a November release, with bi-annual issues on the docket.
Conor O'Neil, who cut his teeth in Barack Obama's Senate office (on the rare occasions when the Senator was in the office and not out on the campaign trail), will be the publisher.
Mr. Frank feels the need to inject a Midwestern attitude into a publication, although his idea of Midwestern attitude was cultivated at the University of Chicago's graduate school. He has faith that his little paper will make it this time around, now that current events have proved his earlier philosophies correct. Isn't the financial world in a mess? He said as much on the first go-round and he anticipates a wider audience in this second incarnation.
If you've had no luck with the Boston Review, and you write from an edgy heart, there may be a place in the world that's looking for your caustic prose.
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