Princeton University hosts an alumni network service called TigerNet, featuring mailing lists among other services. One such list is called Princeton-Writing and serves as a kind of coffeepot for writers.
Eric Lubell, a writer from the Princeton class of '76, felt that alumni are not especially well served by the misnamed Princeton Alumni Weekly and determined instead to develop an interesting magazine by, for, and about Princeton alumni (as opposed to a PR organ for the university's administration and physical plant).
The magazine, The Princeton Independent has just published its first issue exclusively on the Web (in Flash format).
Issue No. 1 celebrates the writers of Princeton's class of 1948, and was designed by iFrancis, class of '90.
Here's the release:
Dear Princetonians (and writers),
The site is up. We have a new alumni publication.
The Independent:
A Journal for the Princeton Community
www.princetonindependent.com
Essays, criticism, art, reviews, interviews, fiction, poetry, and humor. It's written by us ~ Princeton alumni ~ professors, scientists, professionals, politicians, artists, and thinkers of all kinds.
Our first issue is dedicated to The Poets of 1948, with major poems by Galway Kinnell '48, W.S. Merwin '48, and Edmund Keeley '48.
In addition, we have fiction by novelist Stona Fitch '83, a book review by Nicholas Clifford '52, and articles on Adlai Stevenson (Jamie Spencer '66), "America's Global Role" (Joseph Nye '58), The Inuit (Adam Barr '88), Cell Phones (Lesley Carlin '95), Big Game (Peter Kaminsky '69; Fred Tullis '73), and the successor to the Bobblehead Doll (by Bernie Ryan, Jr. '46). We've also got paintings (Mary Weatherford '84), a puzzler called the Princeton Poser, and lots more.
Come one, come all — tell your friends and classmates!
(And if you're interested in contributing — I use the term broadly — I'm interested in figuring out a way to help you do so.)
Best wishes,
Eric