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	Phil's Blogservations Thursday, May 12, 2005 Posted by philgomes 8:01 PM Wherefore The Highbrow Mag? Wherefore The Highbrow Mag? Chris Nolan has noticed that the first six months' issues of The Atlantic Monthly have not published a female writer in any major feature. The Atlantic is a dying institution. And as much as I love and cherish the idea of an intellectually driven, well-written periodical, I'm happy to say "good riddance" to what this once-fine magazine has become. Funny that she happened to bring up this class of publication — the highbrow literary/opinion periodical — at this time. My beef has a lot less to do with feminism or editorial fairness than it does with, well, mere geography. A while back, I bought a 150-year retrospective of Harper's from Grey Wolf Books in San Leandro. Beautifully bound. Goes from Walt Whitman to an insider's perspective on LA's gangland. Picked it up for something like $10. Total bargain. I've picked it up again in the past few weeks. Lately, I've been resurrecting some questions that I've posed to number of folks over the years: Why are all of these magazines on the East Coast? And, what is the West Coast analogue? And, if that analogue doesn't exist, who should start one? I'm thinking there should be at least one such print magazine with a distinctly Silicon Valley sensibility. Notice that I said print — currently the best high-contrast, portable, cost-effective display technology available. (I guess this eliminates one freelancer's suggested candidate, Salon.Com, which we ended up debating for a bit.) Certainly, such a magazine would go some way towards pulling the Valley away from the specious notion that it's culturally bereft. Am I missing something? Is there already one such periodical of Harper's or The Atlantic's ilk? HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.