The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’
The New York Times
The lit mag of the moment, founded by two women in their 20s, isn’t afraid to say what’s on its mind.
On a mild October morning during last year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, Rebecca Panovka and Kiara Barrow set up their display tent outside Borough Hall. They were there to promote The Drift, the journal of politics, culture and literature that they had started online in the early days of the pandemic.
With the help of their scrappy staff, they stacked copies of the Drift’s inaugural print issue and laid out tote bags and caps featuring the Drift logo. Then they waited anxiously, they recalled.
It was the Drift’s formal debut on the city’s literary scene, and Ms. Panovka and Ms. Barrow, who had become friends during their student days at Harvard, said they didn’t know what kind of reception they would get.
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