Slow Century info

Staff

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Danielle Berg, co-founder of Slow Century Magazine, grew up in Long Island, and is now growing up in Brooklyn. She is interested in: day jobs, traveling, writing, teaching, psychology, curry, and other people’s lives. She has never tried: most condiments (ketchup, mustard, saurkraut, pickles). You might not believe that she: was captain of the cheerleading team in high school, and once tried out for American Idol. She doesn’t want her bio to end with the words “American Idol,” so will add that she’s generally quite shy, and has become pretty good at photo retouching (someone’s got to cover up all those arms and legs at the Orthodox magazine she works for!).

A Week With Daniel Erenberg, co-founder of Slow Century Magazine:

Monday- He wakes up to “Fade Into You,” by Mazzy Star—the current ring tone on his cell phone. He takes the Long Island Rail Road into the city from Lynbrook and spends the rest of his day at Hunter College, watching TV DVDs on his office computer in between classes. He ventures back to Long Island at 7 for his favorite TV night of the week (including Chuck, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, etc.) He gets to sleep by 2.

Tuesday- Day off. He sets his Mazzy Star alarm for 10 and watches TV DVDs ‘til around 4:30, when he takes a nap until dinner and his least favorite TV night of the week (including 90210, Privileged, Fringe, etc.) Sleep by 1:30.

Wednesday- Back to school, with a big long break between classes, which he uses to catch up on new music, new TV, new DVDs, or a film, if he can make it to Union Square and back in time. Home for more TV by primetime.

Thursday- More school, as it starts to become more than a little tiresome. Usually ends up staying with his girlfriend in her Gramercy Park Dorm Room, after stopping off at Forbidden Planet to pick up a week’s worth of comics. The girlfriend lets him watch The Office and 30 Rock, but not Life on Mars, because her roommate watches LA Ink at 10.

Friday- He works in the CD/DVD department at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square. He deals mostly with homeless customers, insane customers and foreign customers. Because those are the only customers. He tolerates it because he needs money and he has a lot of friends who work there with him. He then goes home and plays NHL 2001 (Playstation 2 version) with his best friend, Nathaniel Safren, while listening to music. Current favorite players include Stephane Quintal, Jan Hlavac, Jeremy Roenick and created player Jackie Bonds.

Saturday- He gets trashed. Things happen. He passes out.

Sunday- He wakes up from a haze to go back to Barnes and Noble. Even though he wants to go home afterwards to watch Mad Men, he instead must trek into Brooklyn for a meeting about Slow Century Magazine.

Adam Hunter is a freelance writer living in New York City. For the past four years he’s ghostwritten inspirational stories for a Christian audience, despite being a Jew. He’s also written dozens of technology trend articles for a major news web site, despite a fear of robots. In his free time, he enjoys playing dodgeball and beer-league softball, managing Madden football franchises, and summer-ing it up in his beachside hometown. He’s excited to be part of the Slow Century Magazine team and hopes to one day get paid obscenely for his contributions.

Joseph Ireland is co-founder and Senior Fiction Editor of Slow Century Magazine. He recently graduated from Hunter College, and now plans to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. When he is not tutoring at the Hunter College Reading and Writing Center, he enjoys reading, writing, sleeping, television and obsessing over his graduate school applications. He lives in Brooklyn.

Janna Washington is the web designer and the editor of the Visual Arts section. She lives in Brooklyn. She has a degree in photography that she does not yet know what to do with, and at the moment works for her alma matter, sitting in a dark cubicle and doing mysterious things. She loves books and movies and art and food.

About

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Hi there! We are Danielle Berg, Daniel Erenberg and Joseph Ireland, the founders of Slow Century Magazine. We worked together at our college newspaper, and at various times, have each been each other’s boss. (Now we enjoy equal reign and only miss telling people what to do sometimes.) Since graduating college, we wanted to recapture the fun and excitement of working together on something we truly enjoyed – and because no one would hire all three of us at the same magazine, we decided to start our own.

We want to embrace a personal, no-limits journalism, and we hope to do that by delivering point-of-view stories that are interesting, relevant and unique. And in an effort to not further contribute to the dulling of senses known to follow prolonged web browsing, we encourage you to view this site as a place of genuine interaction. Leave comments, or even ask to write with us. We don’t discriminate on the basis of writing experience or personal interests – anything to round out our voice. Everyone’s got a story to tell, and telling them is our – if we had to pick one, which we don’t, but if we did – mission.

If you’re interested in writing for us, or submitting works of poetry, fiction, photography, and just about anything else, check out the “contribute” section. We enjoy writing with each other, and we think you’ll like writing with us too.

Have a nice century!

xoxo

Joseph, Danielle and Daniel

Contact

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If you’ve got questions, suggestions, or just want to say hi, feel free to email us:

slowcenturymag [at] gmail.com

We want your contributions!

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We want your contributions! In fact, that’s what we’re all about.

We’re looking for culturally-related articles that are unique, relevant, and well-written. Culture’s a big, colorful umbrella, so submissions can range from politics to bathroom graffiti to ’80s television to aliens.

Personal essays are also welcome. We’re not going to fact-check these, so if you tell us about the time a giant branch fell and missed you by an inch, or the time your boss caught you watching porn, we’ll take your word for it.

We’re also accepting creative submissions, and encourage you to send over your very best works of short fiction, poetry, and photography. We’ll also be holding contests, with cash prizes, which you can always find posted on the main page. While our focus is on fiction, poetry and photography, we’re happy to accept all forms of art that can translate to the web: short plays, illustrations, music, short films, jokes, and so on.

Slow Century Magazine is about capturing this historical moment: what the living are doing. A simple task, really. But we can’t do it alone.

We look forward to writing with you.

slowcenturymag [at] gmail.com