The crack team of number-crunchers at Virginia Quarterly Review has been at it again! Waldo Jaquith, picking up on Ken Larimer’s idea in Poets & Writers, has determined VQR’s “x-factor” — the percentage of submissions received that are completely inappropriate for the magazine. It turns out that VQR has a surprisingly low x-factor — only [...]
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