Magazines as a Coping Mechanism
Hand me the Arts section, pls.

Many moons ago, I started a new job at a small Christian university. The dutiful HR staffer who oversaw a day’s worth of onboarding for my colleague and me was rightly taken aback when I answered her question about how I spend my free time by cheerfully proclaiming, “I’m a magazine whore!”
Reader, it is difficult to write those words today wit…



