It’s a little hard to describe n+1 because n+1 belongs in another time. If Mary McCarthy were alive
today, it is the journal she would write for. Its four editors met at
Harvard, live in New York City, and like ideas. All they really want to
do is go around the corner and get a beer and talk/fight about Isaac
Babel or Radiohead or McSweeney’s or the state of
American fiction or how much exercise sucks. Tonight, two of the
editorial brass, Keith Gessen and Chad Harbach, read from issue number
six. (Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 S Main St, 624-6600. 7:30 pm,
free.)

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...