It’s Official
Zadie Smith will take over Harper’s New Books column “beginning with the March 2011 issue.” (via Jezebel)
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More Twitter-Mysteries Revealed
Earlier today we noted that The Awl had an interview with the previously anonymous person behind the Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR. Well now GalleyCat has unmasked the man behind @EvilWylie and…
VIDA: On Commotion
The recent chick lit writers versus Franzen conversation, while not without its own tedium, has brought to light some serious concerns about the utterly transparent gender disparity in the literary…
Reddit Sticks It to The Man
“Incredibly popular Internet linkdump Reddit was informed by its corporate parent, Conde Nast, that it could not sell ads supporting Proposition 19, California’s marijuana legalization ballot initiative. So Reddit figured…
Slow Writing: Archaic Forms of Technology Outlive Newer Ones
We love the image of these young people laboriously but lovingly writing their personal diaries as a way to preserve culture:
Long Live $pread
“After all these years, five all-volunteer years to be exact, we have come to the conclusion that an all-volunteer magazine is simply unsustainable in the current publishing climate. Short of…
A Brief History of Authors and Time (the magazine not a non-spatial continuum)
Time recently caused a lot of news in the blogosphere for slapping Jonathan Franzen on their cover (the first author to do so in a decade) and declaring him the…
Good News for Publishing (and Maybe You): Bigger Isn’t Better
Ryerson Review of Journalism brings hope to small publications by giving three good reasons that bigger may not be better – Geez, Spacing, and Broken Pencil; and why they’re tiny but…
Daniel Schorr
Journalism legend Daniel Schorr passed away this morning at the age of 93. NPR remembers the man and his accomplishments with words and photos.
“The Interview was not a happy invention.”
“No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no; for interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come to destroy.” A previously unpublished essay…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #16: Elissa Nelson in Conversation with Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus
Elissa Nelson interviewed her mother, Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus, who has been a freelance journalist since before Elissa was born, working for a variety of magazines and newspapers including People, Newsweek,…