Digital archives that even include my old articles

By at 12 December, 2008, 3:04 pm

Every week it seems a new publication decides to put their digital archives online — which is good news for those of us scrounging around to find copies of our own old work. This New Yorker, I discovered, has put their entire digital archive online, everything since 1925. If you are a subscriber to the […]

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Back with The New Yorker

By at 28 July, 2008, 4:41 pm

For the last month or two, the New Yorker had lost me. I would pick up the issue, look at the table of contents and then the maazine would sink back down into a pile….of other New Yorkers. However, I must say that the current issue once again had a complement of interesting articles. First […]

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Crazy Men Profiled

By at 20 March, 2008, 11:43 am

Whole lotta crazy guys being profiled in the magazines. You can start at Vanity Fair where there is a strange article by Brian McNally, the restauranter who seemed to catch the zeitgeist of the 80’s and 90’s and seems to have imploded in this century — divorced, he made his way to Vietnam where he […]

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New Yorker Mag: PIcturing Auschwitz

By at 13 March, 2008, 10:13 am

Alec Wilkinson has a piece in this week’s New Yorker magazine about the recently recovered photo album of German officers at Auschwitz, including Mengele and Hoess — called “Picturing Auschwitz.” [To view the photos click here.] There are a number of fascinating things in the article, including the tidbits about how various researchers were able […]

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The Stack

By at 27 January, 2008, 7:40 pm

At The Sunday New York Times —  seems like late January is NEW NOVELIST MONTH at the NYT, (and at publishing houses for that matter) what with the recent feature on Jim Collins’ “Beginner’s Greek”, and this Sunday’s Book review of  Tod Wodlicka’s “All Shall Be Well,” and the Charles McGrath article in the Sunday […]

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The New York Times-Google

By at 23 January, 2008, 10:03 am

Here’s a provocative idea: What if Google offered to buy the New York Times?Here’s the story as it appeared on Poynter yesterday (from RealClearMarkets): Poynteronline Romenesko TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008 Will Google eventually own the New York Times? RealClearMarkets The company that has the most to gain from buying the New York Times is Google, […]

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Catching up with The New Yorker — Scientology, Google & Scrap

By at 16 January, 2008, 1:07 pm

The January 14, 2008 issue of the New Yorker was a particularly strong issue (I’m still catching up on my  New Yorkers), with interesting articles by Dana Goodyear on the Scientology Celebrity Center, Ken Auletta on Google and John Seabrook on the scrap metal business (not available in full on line –it is a long […]

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