No matter how fast a reader you are, it’s going to take you 10 years to finish Jonathan Lethem’s new novel.
And you’ll have to subscribe to a brand-new literary magazine to read it: INQUE, which will start publishing next year, the Bookseller reports.
The magazine is the brainchild of Dan Crowe, the editor in chief of Port magazine, and Matt Willey, the former art director of the New York Times Magazine. It will publish just 10 issues, one a year from 2021 to 2030.
Lethem is the author of 11 novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, which was adapted for a film by Edward Norton last year. His next novel, The Arrest, comes out in November.
Lethem won’t be the only star contributor to the magazine’s first issue—it will also boast contributions by authors Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ocean Vuong; musicians Tom Waits and Brian Eno; and actors Tilda Swinton and Samuel L. Jackson.
On a website for the magazine, the publishers describe INQUE as “large in format with extraordinary writers and artists; unusual, opinionated and inspiring editorial; all wrapped up in stunning design, and only in print (no digital release).”
The magazine has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its publication. As of Wednesday afternoon, it had garnered about $40,000 in donations.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
