Readings, Rated
Dirty Doings at the Oxford American
Here’s one for the “People are Unfathomably Jerky” files: The former operations manager of the Oxford American allegedly embezzled some $30,000 from the magazine. The Oxford American is a high-quality, non-profit lit-mag based in Arkansas, and it’s certainly weathered some storms and shake-ups over the course of its existence (it has folded and re-launched twice). Now this. Sheesh. I mean, if you were set on robbing a business blind, Ms. Maxwell, couldn’t you have chosen a greedy, heartless corporation rather than a NON-PROFIT LIT-MAG THAT BARELY STAYS ALIVE AS IT IS?
What circle of hell should she be sent to, folks?
(Hat tip to Bookslut.)
When a friend asked for a raise, the editor of the journal he worked for said he could find ten people to do his job for free. My first thought was that Maxwell got sick of making 30k and stole the extra 30k so she could earn the income of a public school teacher. Still, it sucks, to be sure.