Time is Running Out for Issue 18

Just a quick note to say I’m running out of Issue 18. If you’d like a copy in print, now’s the time to strike!

In Issue 18: The Time of Your Life, we look at time: how to spend it, what to do with it, how to win it back from The Man. We interview August Lamm who is working to set up her own print magazine and offline community in New York, and Dickon Edwards who is a ‘90s indie heart-throb, dandy and diarist who has barely worked a day in his life. Hero. Heather Delaney writes about her American van life, Jon Ransom escapes jury duty, Steve Light finds freedom in curbing his ambitions, and Robert Wringham (that’s me!) vows to escape death or die trying. We review Jenny Odell’s Saving Time, Albertine Saranzin’s Astragal, and Clare Baglin’s On the Clock. The Idler’s Tom Hodgkinson finds a cheap alternative to the pub, Apala Chowdhury goes dancing, and Journal Club looks into research on work-related deaths.

What an issue. 88 very high-quality pages, none of which has been replicated online.

In the old days (Issue 1-13), we used a print-on-demand system and we’d keep our back issues available indefinitely. The model since Issue 14, however, has involved selling all stock. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

This is fine and all and the reasons for it are sound, but whenever we sell out there’s a lot of people asking “why can’t I get X issue?”

So strike now or forever hold your peace! Issue 19 is coming soon.