Brigid Hughes' Dialogue

...with blogger extraordinaire Maud Newton, that is. Hughes, the recently appointed executive editor of The Paris Review discusses the magazine's slush pile policies and the effort to discover new writers:

Talking with new writers--good writers--I've been surprised by how many say they don't submit to the bigger little magazines because they don't think their work will be given serious consideration. It's frustrating, and an attitude I'd really like to change.