The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it?
Despite the dark humor in my Washington newspaper novel, The Solomon Scandals is also an exercise in nostalgia—taking us back
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.
Closing of the Rocky Mountain Daily News
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3390739&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. The owners of a newspaper where I worked in the 1970s, the
A ‘snarky’ critique of modern humor? What would Saul Alinsky have thought? Or Lewis Carroll?
Several kinds of snarks exist in Lewis Carroll‘s poem The Hunting of The Snark (free online). Certain of these creatures
Scandals available for iPhone via Fictionwise / Stanza store
If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can buy The Solomon Scandals at the Fictionwise/Stanza store. Within Stanza on
Solomon Scandals on Books On Board home page
Kudos to Books On Board, one of the Net’s leading e-book stores, for playing up The Solomon Scandals on the
Lorain, Ohio: The real Marseilles, sort of—and Toni Morrison’s old town, on top of that
The Washington, D.C., area gets the most ink in The Solomon Scandals. But Scandals also contains flashbacks to the steel
Will politicians grow more crooked if newspapers dwindle in number and influence?
How good are newspapers as corruption-fighters or -preventers? As noted in The Brass Check, a Chicago Tribune reporter actually tried
Skyline Work Song: A poem by Andrew Solarz
The Solomon Scandals, although fiction, was inspired in part by the Skyline Plaza collapse, which killed 14 workers and injured
Washington’s growing power over the rest of us: ‘Solomonic’ in the wrong way?
The Solomon Scandals vividly depicts a city of lobbyists, crooked lawyers and other manipulators. Herbert Stone, father of Jonathan Stone,
David Rothman at Large 