Talk:The Believer (magazine)

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Noting cover illustrations

All the cover illustration information that User:68.236.214.31 has been putting up is awesome, but it makes the "published issues" list unreadable. I'm moving the illustration notes to a separate list, which would be silly for other magazines but for The Believer makes a bit of sense, and could maybe be expanded to include notes on other illustrations in each given issue. --Tarnas 22:13, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Publication description

I don't think there's any need to copy The Believer's "About" section verbatim... the website is linked below for those interested, though the encyclopedic description could be expanded a little. --Tarnas 02:21, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of real, commercial advertisements

Until The Believer began running commercial ads on its inside back covers in early '07, McSweeney's periodicals had never included ads for non-McSweeney's stuff.

Previously, all ads in McSweeney's publications were either artful, high-concept jokes (as in The Believer's sweet "Personal Ads for Poets" feature from March '05) or ads for actual McSweeney's products (as in the full-page ad for The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature in McSweeney's Quarterly #5).

All that, combined with the fact that The Believer had long been promoted/lauded as specifically "ad-free" makes the inclusion of ads in The Believer worth noting. -- Bigcharles 18:45, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

John D’Agata

Shouldn't the "fact" "article" by John D’Agata be briefly mentioned? [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/books/review/the-lifespan-of-a-fact-by-john-dagata-and-jim-fingal.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema1} 202.179.16.71 (talk) 03:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why John D'Agata is redlinked: I C&P'd it from the Wik site title. 202.179.16.71 (talk) 03:30, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:The believer (magazine) cover.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is The believer (magazine) defunct?

The most recent issue, according to their Web site is Fall 2015.Yet they claim to publish 8 issues per year. Also, Karolina Waclawiak is listed as an editor http://www.believermag.com/about/ but her web site http://www.karolinawaclawiak.com/?page_id=60 says, "Formerly an editor at the Believer, she is now the Deputy Culture Editor at BuzzFeed." Peter K Burian (talk) 00:05, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]