Tag: Magazine

Notes from the Board

Mar 25, 2025

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Ben East

in Diplomacy, Editing, Foreign Affairs, FSJ, Government Studies, Nonfiction, Politics, Washington

Today I fulfilled a long-held aspiration, joining the editorial board of the Foreign Service Journal. For nearly a quarter century this storied publication has followed me around the world from Jeddah to Nicaragua and Mexico City to Mumbai.
Lit Mag Guy

Jan 10, 2019

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Ben East

in Fiction, Mumbai, Non-Fiction, Writing

End of last year I offered to help produce a school literary magazine, figuring I might be useful editing the 80 or so submissions. Yesterday I learned the organizers really need someone to pull the issue together, format it, give it that polished look. Why’d they turn to me? My inexperience coupled with their tight…