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Mendel and Noah sit down with n+1 co-founder, Tablet columnist, and all around gentleman scholar Marco Roth.

In the first half, we discuss what was cool in old New York, what it means to be a writer on Substack vs. an “old-fashioned” writer, Marco’s apprenticeship with Derrida, and the early days of n+1.

In the second half, we discuss n+1 in its later “institutional era,” the famous n+1 takedown of James Wood, why founding editors left (or were made to leave) n+1, shifting standards after October 7th, and more.

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Erratum: the Alice Gregory piece Noah mentioned appeared in the New Yorker, not n+1.

Buy Marco’s book here.