ZINE MUNCH #7: Academia’s Gossip Rag (w/ Alexander Star)
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On Lingua Franca and the contrarian potential of the little magazine
Alexander Star was the longest running and last editor of Lingua Franca, a 90s little magazine dubbed the ‘People magazine of Academia’ for its focus on the ‘personal feuds and intellectual controversy’ within the University; its pages are filled with shockingly entertaining essays (some favorites: A Most Dangerous Method, Mystery Science Theater, Oh My Darwin, and Shell Game) that lose none of the rigor of their subjects. Every time the magazine comes up in conversations with my professors they light up—it seems like the canonical subculture publication for working academics in the 90s.…
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