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Jan.09.2013
There's a great article in The Atlantic today about about The Daily Beast's enormously popular writer Andrew Sullivan leaving to establish his own writing and publishing venture. What with the emerging D-I-Y approach the traditional publishing biz has by default made virtually...
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Dec.14.2012
Sometimes I read an article and think, everyone should read this.
That's the case with an article by senior editor Derek Thompson in "The Atlantic". He's compiled a mass of graphs under the title, deep breath, "A Giant Statistical Roundup of the Income Inequality Crisis in Sixteen...
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Nov.30.2012
Benjamin Schwartz, The Atlantic's literary editor, weighs in with his picks for the best books of 2012. Such lists are always arguable, and I have others I'd put in such a list. How about you?
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Jun.21.2012
Aristotle once wrote (and here I'm paraphrasing, but only slightly) that all writing should either entertain or inform. The thing that bugs me these days is that there's more journalistic entertaining going on than informing, and a lot of this entertainment poses as news. Information. Reportage....
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Jun.05.2012
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Such a pleasure to see fiction appear once more in The Atlantic's June 2012 issue! And a fine story this one is: "Honors Track," by one Molly Patterson.
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The story concerns a group of high school kids busting their...
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Feb.20.2012
I've commented infrequently on Atlantic Monthly, a magazine I've read for many more years than I wish to count. I've had my problems with Atlantic; the editors have often tackled important subjects in the magazine, but all too often they've done so with provocative articles...
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May.21.2011
For those interested in what's been written in NF lately, this article should be down your pike. Surely even more will come from my dear Southeast, as the Mississippi River rises and subsides.
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Apr.26.2011
In the May 2011 issue of The Atlantic, James Bennet tells us of a writer who depicted the state of published short stories thusly:
"...not quite dead on the page,I won't go that far, but airless...show-offy rather than entertaining, self-important rather than interesting, guarded and self-...
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Dec.07.2009
The New York Times reported that The Atlantic will publish two short stories (by Christopher Buckley and Edna O’Brien) today on the Kindle. The stories, which will be offered at $3.99 each, will be available only on Amazon’s e-reader (not in the print version), and they’ll be the first of many more...
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Sep.14.2009
Great piece on the hard work of fiction-writing, here, by Tim O'Brien, one of my all-time fave authors...
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