Gregory Snaith

Little Magazine Editor

ON THE DAY BEFORE OXFORD English finals, when Gregory’s tutorial group met for its valedictory session, their tutor, Dr Carstairs, asked them all what they intended nded to “do”. The predictable replies — this was the late 1980s — included two merchant bankers, an embryo academic, several accountants nts and a haughty girl with her eye on RADA. A. Only Gregory seemed prepared to upset this applecart. “Actually,” he remarked, “I want to edit a literary magazine.” Dr Carstairs was a polite but somewhat unworldly man whom Gregory had spent three years quietly baffling. “I see,” he observed. “Does that mean you want to work on the New Statesman or the Spectator?” “Indeed, no,” Gregory assured him — even at 22, he favoured a precise and pedantic diction. “I mean…

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