[Nettime-bold] Fw: Baffler: In Flames

["Mark Dery" <markdery@mindspring.com>]

<<Joshua Glenn, editor of the marvelously snarky little magazine of drive-by
cultural criticism, HERMENAUT, forwarded this sobering note. It's an S.O.S.
from THE BAFFLER. (For those of you who don't know THE BAFFLER, it's an
unrepentantly leftist 'zine---"leftist" in the demonic, Old Left sense of
the word, heaven forefend!---edited by Tom Frank.>>

----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Glenn <josh@hermenaut.com>
To: <josh@hermenaut.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: Baffler: In Flames


> Catastrophe! Many of you may have already heard all about this, but I
> thought I'd better send this along in case you hadn't. The Baffler is my
> favorite magazine. Please help out if you can.
>
> Josh
>
> From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3@alumni.uchicago.edu>
>
> Dear Friend of The Baffler:
>
> On the morning of April 25th, our office and the unique building in which
> it was housed were destroyed in a fire. In addition to the Baffler office,
> the building was home to a close community of artists, writers, nonprofit
> organizations, and small businesses. No one was injured in the fire, but
> the physical damage was extensive. Worse, however, was the devastation of
a
> vital center of cultural activity.
>
> We're struggling to cope with our losses and those of our friends. We have
> set up a temporary office and will do our best to publish Baffler #14
> (which was sent to the printer a week before the fire) as scheduled. It
now
> appears that our subscriber list is recoverable, so we are hopeful that
> everyone will get their copy of the magazine. For now, though, we have no
> computers, no contact lists, no rolodexes, no desks, and no desk lamps.
>
> We and our friends are determined to rebuild and recover, but we need
help.
> For those who can, please send donations made out to The Baffler Recovery
> Fund to:
>
> The Baffler Magazine
> P. O. Box 378293
> Chicago, IL 60637
>
> Donations are tax-deductible.
>
> In-kind help would also be greatly appreciated. We're hoping we can score
a
> few iMacs mothballed in the warehouses of northern California after the
> dot-com bankruptcies of recent months. Or, on the humbler, more
second-wave
> side, just some file cabinets, or desks, or carpets, or one of those huge
> unabridged dictionaries. Let us know if you can help with any of these.
> And, as our e-mail lists are incomplete, please forward this message to
> anyone you know who would be interested.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has called in sympathy.
>
> Emily Vogt
> Greg Lane
> Tom Frank
> Dave Mulcahey
>
> P.S. Funds are also being set up for our friends. Information on those
> funds will be posted on our Web site shortly.
>
> *************
> Hermenaut magazine:
> http://www.hermenaut.com


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