A page one story in yesterday’s LA Times featured San Francisco literary magazine ZYZZYVA and its founder Howard Junker, who will retire as editor of the magazine at the end of 2009. Junker began the magazine in 1985 as “a redemptive gesture, something that I thought I could do and that I could admire. It was like a midlife crisis.” And even Junker is amazed at how the magazine has stayed afloat when the print run (2,500 copies) remained the same: “People give money to pay me. “They are kind enough and courageous enough and silly enough to say, ‘We […]
