I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape,… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
