“One of the points of the magazine was to provide an outlet for other people in my position — young people who are smart, who are great writers … but, who are having trouble in D.C. and elsewhere finding outlets by which to express themselves,” said Biedlingmaier.
The debut of The New Professional includes work from several other Kenyon graduates, including writing from Gavin Broady and Marta Evans.
I'm sorry, I read that as, "I couldn't get a job at Washington City Paper or the Blade or any think tanks or anywhere else so I grabbed a bunch of other similarly unemployed Kenyonites and started my own publication." Is that unfair?
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This is one of the things grads from places like Kenyon seem to do. They take a risk that would give me a heart attack, and sometimes it works out, and they wind up in the Alumni Bulletin, and sometimes it doesn't, and I'm not sure what happens then.
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