LATE SEPTEMBER FVQ UPDATES

1. If you've been patiently awaiting the summer issue to arrive at your doorstep, it is now (finally!) in the mail. Expect it in the next few weeks.

2. Our tentative fall issue cover is beautiful and once again features the photography of J.J Ina Steeves (see above)

3. There is an article on the magazine in this week's issue of The Xaverian Weekly (StFX Campus Newspaper). Check it out. It's really flattering, maybe too much so, but we think that they're incredibly kind for writing about us for the second time now.
http://www.xaverianweekly.ca/ may have it available online.

4. Summer copies now have a new front cover/inside cover post-us finding out about David Foster Wallace. The reprint is what is being mailed out/is currently on sale at the Tall & Small. It pays tribute, and, we think, looks better too.

David Foster Wallace.

We have absolutely no idea how to interpret and/or write about this, but, in short, we're deeply, deeply saddened to find out tonight (via phone call from Ontario) of David Foster Wallace's recent suicide. This is a serious loss.

For those of you who don't already know, the title "Frequent & Vigorous Quarterly" comes directly from Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System. His influence on our magazine, our work, our minds is just indescribably huge. If you've been putting off reading his work, now's the time to do it.

What the fuck.

edit: We found this a few hours ago. It's worth taking a look at. Possibly every day.
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html