Greener pastures for Rashad Young, Alexandria’s $266.5K city manager: D.C., beware
Rashad Young, hired at $245K and now paid $266,508 a year, is leaving as Alexandria’s city manager to become city
Author: David Rothman
David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryEndowment.org. He is also author of Drone Child: A Novel of War, Family, and Survival. Other books are The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the creation of a national digital library endowment.
Zelig and the art of winning a Pulitzer: Q&A with J. Ross Baughman, photojournalist
Imagine you’re with the Secret Service. A young Ohioan calls up and says he’ll be joining the Nazi Party. “I
In search of ’Wooden Watermelons’ and true Net neutrality
Searching for Wooden Watermelons is a sweet indie flick about a bright 20-something in Beaumont, Texas, who is puzzling out
‘Solomon Scandals’ book-signing Jan. 18
Decades before the ABC-TV series Scandal or House of Cards on Netflix, The Solomon Scandals existed in manuscript form—a quirky
Carlos the Bat: Up Close and Personal
I named him Carlos, after a Miami–Dade politician with a bat-crazy miserliness toward public libraries. Our winged friend paid us
Smart move: The Grahams’ spin-off of The Washington Post
Jack Shafer, the Reuters columnist, wrote last year that Graham family should spin off the Washington Post newspaper from the
‘House of Cards’ and ‘Scandals’
Enjoying the gritty depictions of Washington power players in the fabulous House of Cards series on Netflix? Then you might
2013? Bring it on. To hell with superstition!
Never mind fiscal cliffs, or the fact that the real danger isn’t a Mayan-style apocalypse but a nuclear one (with
‘Scandals’ paperback and e-book bundled for $16.95 at re∙reads
A new local bookstore and Twilight Times Books, publisher of The Solomon Scandals, are teaming up to offer the e-book
David Rothman at Large 