If you haven’t had the chance, this—by Dalton’s Magazine’s own esteemed founder and publisher and editor-in-chief and chief correspondent and contributing writer—is worth reading:
Instructions for Your New Hiding Desk
If you have had a chance, and were led from by the above link and the nice bio on McSweeney’s to visit Dalton’s Magazine in the first place, then the above is worth reading again—four or five times, I’d say.