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My thinking was
that this question

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would be a good
follow up, that it

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would be an obvious connection.

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But I'm not-- I'm not
sure that it will be.

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But given television,
and the internet,

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and the general inundation
of information that we face,

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do you ever feel like it's
difficult to remain relevant

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in all of that information?

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Or maybe do you feel
that paradoxically,

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because of that information,
what you publish

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is even more relevant?

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Well, this may get back to
one of your earlier questions,

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but I'll be with
Drew here, you know.

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What we do is totally awesome.

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[LAUGHS]

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And I have to believe
it is relevant.

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That the problem
being, whether we

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can convince enough
people and readers

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that it is, to keep going.

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One thing we haven't
touched on here

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is probably in your
future questions

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is the economics of
all that, and being

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able to continue doing what
you do for year after year,

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or even and for new prices
to begin and all that.

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And there are significant
challenges of that kind.

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And certainly having
1,000 as you said or more

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sharing that feeling
of its relevance,

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even with an individual
press and individual author

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helps that sense
to a great deal.

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But I think I have to say
I have to trust my training

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and trust my sensibility
to manuscripts come in

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and the work I'm reading.

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And in certain ways, not worry
very much if it's relevant.

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And certainly not
worry about it being

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relevant to specific
issues of our time

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and things like
that because I do

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think that the
work we publish, I

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want it to have a long,
very long shelf life.

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On the other hand,
you know, it's

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sort of wonderful when it does
have timely relevance too.

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I don't know if arrogance
is the right word,

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but I look at the
people I hang out

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with when we're
making the bucks,

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and I think they're a hell of
a lot cooler than most anybody

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I meet, like Drew and Richard.

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And Andrew out there does all
our design, and our intern.

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And they're great,
awesome people,

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and they consider what
we're doing relevant.

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And they like me so thus, I must
be also awesome and relevant.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So whether or not others are
considering our work relevant,

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it's not actually that
relevant question.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So yeah.

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Just to echo that,
even historically,

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the sense that small groups and
coterie of poets and readers

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that maybe didn't have many
people at all listening

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to them in their
time have been some

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of the people that have made
this whole history of the work

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we do.

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So yeah, I think
you are relevant.

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Thank you.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So much of awesomeness
equals relevance.

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Well we're all on the same team.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I wouldn't look
to the economy.

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Yeah, it's really important
to believe in what you do.

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Otherwise, we wouldn't be here
doing it right or still doing

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it after 25 years,
I think Chax Press?

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27.

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27.

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18 years Kore, and you'll be
doing it the rest of your life

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too.

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So and I suppose we
all are operating

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in an economy and
that's sustainability

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and sort of long historic view
is really important I think,

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for all of us.

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And having a good time doing
that it's really important,

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and yet we also exist and have
to operate in this economy,

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but we can't look to the economy
to say, yes, you're relevant.

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You know, I mean, we make books.

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We have to sell the books.

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So therefore, we
want to cultivate

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a readership that
keeps us going,

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and we keep them going as well.

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And then the other
part of the economy

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is just well, we can't rely
on the government, or arts

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councils, or where
the money is coming

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from to tell us that we're
good, or we're relevant,

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or important, or the
work that we're doing.

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We have to just keep finding new
ways to keep making it happen.

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