Might magazine
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Might was a San Francisco-based magazine founded in the early 1990s by Dave Eggers, who went on to describe the magazine's rise and fall in his bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. With its name meant to suggest both "power" and "possibility," the magazine might be summarized as an effort by twentysomethings to say something instead of nothing. Might went out of business in 1997, but back issues are still available through the website of Eggers's philanthropic writing organization 826 Valencia.
[edit] Featured topics
- Double Fabulous Know-it-all Issue
- For the Love of Cheese
- Intimacy, AIDS, and the Moment
- Is This Local TV News or Is This Satan's Parlor?
- Adam Rich
- Raising Hell
- Vindicated at Last
- The Millennium Issue
- Spring Wedding Spectacular
- Are Black People Cooler Than White People?
The editors/writers/publishers of Might Magazine don't take themselves or the world too seriously. The entire issues poke fun at someone or another, focusing mainly on celebrities and has-beens and actors that have been in T.V. commercials that no one has seen before.
David Eggers, who has written the nation's bestseller, A Heartbraking Work of Staggering Genius, illustrates the rise and fall and rise again of Might Magazine, and the basic workings that were put behind it. He describes the jokes behind the the countless puns and sarcastic illustrations, and tells how work was put into seeming effortless.
Might Magazine is written by some "twentysomethings", a group of twenty year-olds that work together to write and publish witty articles about the stupidity of people and the world as it was.
[edit] Further reading
- Order form for back issues of Might
- Might reader reminiscing
- Magazine anthology named Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp: And Other Essays (1998) ISBN 0-425-16477-2
