As if it weren't hard enough to keep up with all of the amazing writing in the world, lit mags add a WHOLE OTHER level of necessary reading to our lives.

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What a great problem to have.
How does a person choose?

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Maybe you can't get enough of the short stories in McSweeney's.

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Maybe you live for Oxford American's annual music issue.

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Perhaps the poems in A Public Space get you every damn time.

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Or maybe you're all about digital — like free online mag Midnight Breakfast.

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