When Is Violence Justified? Big Question Gets Long Answer
Rising Up and Rising Down , by William T. Vollmann. McSweeney’s, 3,298 pages, $120. If you’re so inclined, you can probably go ahead and tell people you’ve read William Vollmann’s latest, a spry,...
View ArticleThursday: “Dear Larry, I’m Worried …”
Sell properties fast with upgraded light fixtures and new room configurations. (The Wall Street Journal) Scandal! Secretly obtained e-mails from Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison’s inbox sent by his...
View ArticlePlease Kill Fee Me: The Scary Rise of Celebrity Journalism Dilettantes
How much worse can things get for journalists? Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers...
View ArticleA Faux-Antiquated Newspaper With Actual News
The 33rd issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be packaged as the San Francisco Panorama, a made-up newspaper that Eggers et al hope to distribute on the streets of the city as well as sending to...
View ArticleChronicle Pounces on Eggers’ Panorama
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s–a one-time-only newspaper called the Panorama designed to demonstrate the fun things ink and paper can do–will be released in a couple weeks. The San Francisco Chronicle...
View ArticleIt’s a West-Coast East-Coast Opera Thing
San Franciscans are pleased with their bold taste in opera, suggests a piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. Reviewing a telecast of the Met’s controversial restaging of Tosca—the one greeted with...
View ArticleSan Francisco Chronicle To Fold Stand-Alone Food Section
The San Francisco Chronicle is planning to fold its much-loved, stand-alone food section into a lifestyle section, tentatively called “Artisan,” The New York Times reports. Although the Hearst...
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