#316: Heavy Traffic Magazine

Founder/EIC Patrick & Assistant Editor Saoirse on Being Highly Critical, Techgnosis by Erik Davis, Absent Ephemera, Ultraviolence Outtakes, and more.

Cool people like cool things, which is why we asked Heavy Traffic to share some recommendations on Perfectly Imperfect.

Heavy Traffic is a New York City-based literary mag run by founder & EIC Patrick McGraw and his assistant editor Saoirse Bertram. They just released their second print issue that was designed by Richard Turley and features writing from Honor Levy, Lynne Tillman, and Marcus Mamourian, amongst others. Their first issue dropped last July and featured Dean Kissick, Seth Price, and Stephanie LaCava. Patrick is also the editor-at-large at KALEIDOSCOPE magazine and Saoirse stars in Simone Films’s upcoming television series “This Week On Chinatown” dir. by Kyle Brown & Zans Brady Krohn. Lucky for us, Patrick and Saoirse are here to tell us what they’ve been into.

Without further ado

Patrick McGraw (instagram)

🫶🏻 Being Highly Critical 

This is probably less of a choice and more of a personality defect. It’s ultimately an alienating and soul crushing way to live your life. But t…