Stack chats with 'SUP magazine about Independent Publishing, Retromania and more
Ah, that weird week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It's a week when DiS likes to kick back and read, and we thought it'd be a good chance for you (and us too) to catch up on some of the best bits of writing from this year. But it's the holidays, and we're feeling mega-lazy, so we've let Steve from Stack Magazines - a brilliant magazine subscription service that sends you a different magazine each month - takeover the site. This week, you can read the fruits of his chats with the editors of some of his (and our!) favourite music magazines. Each conversation shares some insights about being a print magazine in 2011 and their favourite thing they read in the year that was. Kicking things off, here is Steve's chat with Marisa, editor of 'SUP...

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The best thing that I read this year was Michelle Mirsky's column 'No Fear of Flying: Kamikaze Missions in Death, Sex, and Comedy' on Mcsweeney's website:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/no-fear-of-flying-kamikaze-missions-in-death-sex-and-comedy
It chronicles the time after the death of the author's son with an astonishing honesty, humour and wisdom.
Looking back through my Instapaper account...
...there's quite a few Quietus articles in there. These were particularly cool-
http://thequietus.com/articles/02000-steven-wells-a-tribute
http://thequietus.com/articles/06112-mayhem-vs-nwa
Non-music related, there's this 4-part series on drug dealers-
http://thedependent.ca/featured/featured/base-logic-part-one-introductions/
Favourite real magazine article this year: The Fickle Needle of Fate
in Believer Magazine, about attempts to get record players installed in cars in the 1950s.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201107/?read=article_collins