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Sam Zell, Chairman and CEO of the Tribune Company (publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times), says no newspapers can survive. (via MediaBistro) “Politico owner Robert Allbritton…
“A Man of Confused but Deep Spirituality”
On October 21st, Jack Kerouac had been dead exactly forty years. You’d be pressed to find a more quoted, misunderstood, revered, and culturally significant icon of the latter half of…
Morning Coffee
What does the internet cost around the world? Typewriter people. Walt Whitman’s levi’s commercial. Architects Journal looks at the top 5 comic book cities. Also: Paris as star map.
Letters Home
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…
The Resilience of the Novel
“The media predicted the death of the book upon the advent of radio, and then again with film, and then again with television. It’s happening once more with the rise…
Things to Think About: Publishing Links
The Nook has become the fastest selling item at Barnes & Noble. “What the hell is social publishing?” (via @R_Nash) Robert Weil talks about editing R. Crumb’s Genesis Illustrated. “Is Book…
A Squared-Off Landscape Representing the World
A Village Life is the work of a mature poet looking out at the world from a window, but now concerned with the larger cycles in which she participates, instead…
“My Most Embarrassing Fantasy”
“Looking at these photos, I get the sense that the writers (even the young ones) are long gone, lost to an era when people gazed longingly out of train windows,…
Listen to Metal on Metal and Everything Will Be Okay
Just because you don’t succeed the way others define success, you’re not a failure. You just chose to take a different path. And who’s to say that’s wrong? I just…
PPOW Hosts n+1 Party
PPOW Gallery in Chelsea has been lending its space for a variety of interesting literary arts events through its Hostess Project. A few weeks ago it hosted a screening of…