The Baffler - Definition and Overview

The Baffler, founded in 1988 by editor Thomas Frank, is a cultural criticism journal headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It is sold at independent bookstores across the US. It is known for critiquing "business culture and the culture business," and for having exposed the grunge speak hoax perpetrated on the New York Times. A self-described goal of the journal is to "blunt the cutting edge". Its models are the satire and cultural criticism of H.L. Mencken and the progressive journalism of Randolph Bourne.

The Chicago office of the Baffler was destroyed in a fire on April 25, 2001 (see [1] (http://www.thebaffler.com/fire.html)), and publication has since that time been sporadic (Baffler 14 was in press at the time, and as of 2004 only two new numbers have since emerged).

Reference

• Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler. Edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland. ISBN 0393316734.

External links

• The Baffler's website (http://www.thebaffler.com/)

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