Village Voice Glares Across Room at New Yorker, Dares it to Fight
When we came across (via Gawker) Rose Jacob's article about lit festivals in yesterday's Village Voice, we were surprised for two reasons. First, that we were reading the Village Voice, and second by the harsh words Jacobs had for the New Yorker Festival:
"...the New Yorker Festival is the ultimate insiders' game. New Yorker editors interview New Yorker writers; the subjects of New Yorker profiles debate the subjects of New Yorker editorials; and New Yorker readers are granted the honor of listening in on it all-an audiovisual review of what they've read in The New Yorker over the past year."
An insider's game? Endless networking? A narcissistic bubble of privilege and entitlement? An echo-chamber for the self-satisfied few? Maybe the Ivy League and New Yorker have more in common than they realize (besides 3/4 of their masthead).
So what's with the Ivy hate, Eustace?
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