Heavy Traffic is a radical new take on the literary magazine | Dazed

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With contributions from Sean Thor Conroe, Chris Kraus and Natasha Stagg, the New York magazine is publishing fast, ‘schizzed out’ short fiction – here, editor Patrick McGraw tells us more about the ideas that inspired it

Gallery / 8 images There are no images. Instead, the cover star of New York magazine Heavy Traffic is a barrage of text gleaming against a black void, the words chopped up and winding around its edges. “She no longer had the language to describe what was happening,” it reads. “She murmured loudly to herself now, becoming increasingly lost not in thought, but in nothing.” The literary magazine’s language, described by editor Patrick McGraw as “gibberish”, becomes increasingly haphazard and deranged as the pages turn (“Hard limit. Scarr-ed. sssh. whoAMiTALKingTO”). It almost feels like an IRL ve

Heavy Traffic is a radical new take on the literary magazine | Dazed

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