Apology Magazine: No. 3

is a new magazine of art, fiction, games, humor, essays, interviews, journalism and photography. Founded and edited by former magazine editor-in-chief Jesse Pearson, is inspired in equal measure by the golden ages of and ; by 1980s punk zines like ; by the ; and by magazine. In a general 'statement of intent,' Pearson writes: "1) Each new issue of will be just different enough from the one before it that it will be slightly unsettling if you were a big fan of the previous issue. 2) There will be no regular features in , although if a certain kind of piece works really well we might do something very similar in a subsequent issue. 3) You will, however, be able to rely on each and every issue of to contain, in varying degrees: fiction, poetry, photography, interviews, essays, humor and art. 4) I'm trying to think of each issue of as one component of a big, Baroque Apologetic tapestry. Think of it like a season of a good TV show with all the little threads and coincidences. 5) I want to be smart, beautiful and funny but I also want it to be really weird because there aren't any other magazines alive today. (I used those emphatic italics there to drive that point home extra hard.) 6) And now, one last thing: I hereby preemptively call out the fact that pretentious stuff has been said in this statement, and thereby I have stripped anybody else of the power to call me or pretentious—forthwith, in perpetuity, ad infinitum."