“Pastelegram lives in two distinct forms: a biannual print issue and an online site. The print issue features an editorial collaboration with an artist or art historian that includes original works made for the magazine, visual essays, an interview with the issue’s collaborator and a collection of outside texts and images selected by the collaborator and Pastelegram’s editors.”

Pastelegram’s first issue features heavy metal fan letters, sentences from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, an article about David Foster Wallace’s struggle with being labeled a “genius” and his collection of self-help books, photographs by editor Barry Stone, and other essays and images pertaining to the issue’s theme of circularity.