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Eric Banks, the editor of Bookforum, has ankled the schmancy intellectual sweatshop. He'll be sticking around for the next couple issues.
12:10 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Choire
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As Gawker reported this afternoon, Eric Banks is resigning his post as editor-in-chief of BookForum after four years; once he closes on his last issue this spring, he told The Observer, he’ll cover horseracing for Michael Tomasky at Guardian America, and possibly also help with the site’s books and...
Bookforum could make a review of Amartya Sen's latest read like the personal statement of a San Francisco conceptual sound artist. Never have I read such jargony, incoherent reviews outside of the artworld, which is exactly why nobody cares about the artworld any more.
So Godspeed, Eric Banks.
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