Voices

KEITH: Good questions, Hutt, and some of them -- what makes an effective partnership? -- seem best answered in practice. We'll see how Being Point Press does, and that'll answer the questions.

But you asked how this is different from editing OMNI. Obviously, we don't have the staff OMNI had, but I suspect you're not talking about mechanical details.

One of the things I sought when editing the magazine was as wide a variety of voices, styles, tones, insights as possible. If we had twenty-five by-lines I wanted twenty-five different voices. That was pretty unusual for a national magazine, many of which are edited to a single voice. Not all, and the exceptions are among the finest and most important and interesting magazines of our time. But many magazines have a "house style" and material is edited and shaped to fit it.

So I would say that what I hope for with Being Point Press is a variety of styles and tones and insights and ideas, a sense of breadth of perspective and range of inquiry that makes reading so rewarding.

How's that?