Sometimes literary magazines only make it because they're being funded by parties with an agenda. This needs to be a worry for any such magazine. (Ran into an a

Sometimes literary magazines only make it because they're being funded by parties with an agenda. This needs to be a worry for any such magazine. (Ran into an archetypal example from 1934 yesterday - Shut down after a couple of years, then restarted with new funding and a 'new POV': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Review : not revealed until decades later) As with the 'free newspapers' of the 1970s and today's many lesser-known podcasts, true lit-mag independence is made possible by the support of a smallish community (including creators and producers). 'Success' changes people.