After 28 years, a beloved hub of literary New York closes its doors.
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TheBookforumoffice in Chelsea is almost stripped bare.
Only odds and ends are left on this Monday in late December, the staffs last in the space.
A yoga mat sits rolled on a cardboard box of stray titles.
Launched in 1994 as a companion toArtforum,Bookforumabruptly announced its closure on December 12.
The critic Parul Sehgal recallsBookforumas a rare publication serious but never earnest, amused but never tediously knowing.
No dull pieties or provocations.
Just interesting prose about interesting prose (and poetry).
Articles took shape from phone conversations, no agenda attached.
But I just feel grateful to have been part of it.
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