Fringe magazines stimulate mind, provide break from mundane
Let me take a minute to reintroduce the Rice student body to a gratifying and long-lost form of entertainment: pleasure reading. While few of us have time to curl up with a good epic novel on the weekends anymore, Rice students actually can still make time for pleasure reading. It’s just a matter of finding appropriately-sized articles to cram into our hectic schedules.
Instead of attempting to start — and often failing to finish — a new bestseller between Friday afternoon and Monday morning, I have found I am better off picking up a few magazines for the week and perusing them whenever I need a study break. I’m not talking about your typical Elle or GQ here, though. The magazine industry is teeming with intellectual, tongue-in-cheek periodicals that sport everything from the best new fiction or drama to the top-20 most annoying figures in world history.
These magazines tend to be thought-provoking, essay-and class-discussion-inspiring and most importantly, fun to read. So next time you have finished reading your textbooks and still need a few more words to stare at before your next class, grab the latest issue of one of these easy-to-approach literary gems. At the very least, it will give you something to read that hasn’t been translated from ancient Greek or written by an engineer.
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