Vanity Fair: “Not only are the people at the Times aware of their new readers’ likely lack of constancy, they’re paranoid about it. In some sense, it’s the central obsession at the Times, the driver of the place, this very un-Timesian concern with what people are thinking about it, as the paper increasingly becomes a hot topic in the national court of public opinion. And it’s a crazy court. Every politically and emotionally addled information consumer wants to convict the Timesof something.” (via Books Inq.)
Month / August 2006
Another Litblogger Throws In the Hat
Kevin Holtsberry, who is perhaps too apologetic in his debut, enters the podcasting fray and interviews Brock Clarke concerning this article and more.
Hugo Winners
Locus reports this year’s winners. Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin won the novel award. Connie Willis won for novella. David D. Levine’s “Tk’tk’tk” took the short story award. And John Scalzi nabbed the John W. Campbell Award.
Meanwhile, We Remain More or Less Silent About Our Embarrassing Addiction to Gnarls Barkley
Dallas Morning News Suffers Arts Coverage Atrocities
Dallas Blog: “Will Books go away? Books editor Charles Ealy and critic Jerome Weeks appear to be takers. Lifestyles writers Bryan Wooley, Bill Marvel, Michael Precker and Beatriz Terrazas are listed, among several others. Also investigative reporter Doug Swanson. From the business section, columnist Scott Burns apparently will now have more time to spend in his antique motor home. Artist Randy Bishop is on the goodbye list. Metro is losing some veteran reporters, including Bill Lodge and Tim Wyatt, among others.”