Editor & Fiction Editor – Michael Mejia
Poetry Editors – Craig Dworkin, Katharine Coles, Thomas Stillinger
Nonfiction Editors – Stuart Culver, Jeremy Rosen
Managing Editor – Tessa Fontaine
Consulting Editors – Barry Weller, Mindy Wilson
Print Design – Hailey Rabdau
Web Design – Adam Halstrom
Editorial Board – Scott Black, Vincent Cheng, Norman Council, Karen Lawrence, Michael Martone, Stephen Tatum
Editor’s Note
Our annual special issue with the Western Humanities Alliance. This year’s theme is “Prestige: The Marketing of Distinction.”
Guest Editor: Catherine Liu
Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue:
Prestige: The Marketing of Distinction
Catherine Liu
The Values of Prestige
Elaine Lewinnek
From Ferguson to Irvine: Why Suburban Diversity Matters
Virginia Arce
Splendid Intensity, Splendid Subversion: Transgression on the Dance Floor
Michael Mahoney
On Air and Undressed: Jim Spagg and the No-Frills Utopia of Public-Access Television
Michael Z. Newman
Quality TV as Liberal TV
Elana Levine
Legitimating Television: The Striving Soap Opera
James F. English
Prestige, Pleasure, and the Data of Cultural Preference: “Quality Signals” in the Age of Superabundance
Michael Szalay
Ishiguro’s Prestige