On Language 11/16: Verbatim magazine celebrates 30th volume
Delectable journal Verbatim is thriving in `no-man’s land’
‘On Language‘
Chicago Tribune
November 16, 2005
By Nathan Bierma
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Verbatim has nearly 1,500 subscribers in the U.S. and about 300 overseas, McKean says. A U.S. subscription for four 30-plus-page issues per year costs $25. The magazine is printed on light beige paper with handsome brown type.
McKean says the magazine has succeeded by targeting a general audience but not watering down its subject matter.
“It’s geared toward laypeople, but I belong to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals,” McKean says. “It’s not literary, not scholarly—it’s kind of a no-man’s-land.”
And yet, the magazine has found its niche as a serious general interest magazine on language, McKean says: “It’s a good place to be. Once people find us, they hold on with both hands.” ...
McKean muses about what [a] centennial issue might contain.
“Robot slang. Martian English. How will skull-phone texting change lunar English? Idioms of the methane beings of Titan. I can see us doing that.”
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