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Derek Neal's avatar

I find this stuff fascinating. As a reader, I've always thought the LARB was pretty good. They did a very long 3 part essay on Knausgaard that I recently discovered (published 2015) and it's probably the best thing I've ever read about him. But as a writer and a business model...well, I see your point. The idea that you would write for them for free in the hopes of then parlaying that into getting paid at a different publication seems pretty draconian. I thought they were, ya know, up there at that top of the food chain! I thought that was the kind of place that paid people!

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Yasmin Nair's avatar

Also, this part is key, and I'm glad you made the point:

"Instead, it became a sort of résumé-building platform for career academics."

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