The life and death of the chain-smoking editor
How could I have written a newspaper novel like The Solomon Scandals without a chain-smoking editor? Kamikaze levels of tobacco
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Kent State Massacre 40 years later: ‘Get set!’ ‘Point!’ ‘Fire!’ orders said to be in enhanced recording
Four Kent State University students—including Bill Schroeder, an ROTC cadet whose funeral I wrote up for the Lorain Journal—died 40
‘Red Hot Patriot’ play is B’way-bound for sure if Philly gross is any hint: $437K in single-ticket sales
The Molly Ivins play—remember, Molly was the uppity newspaper columnist with a dog named Shit and a sassy ‘tude to
Google IS killing newspapers—but not in the way you might think
I mourn the decline of traditional newspapers, like The Telegram in The Solomon Scandals, despite their many flaws. How many
‘What Would Google Do’ with my old steeltown newspaper in Lorain, Ohio? Here’s what I’D do.
Related: Media critic James Fallows and Google News’ Josh Cohen will discuss digital-era journalism tomorrow, Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m., in
‘Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins’: My Q. & A. with playwright Margaret Engel
A black mongrel dog scampers across the stage, “dragging a leash and a canoe paddle.” Her owner yells for the
Like the old whalers
The Solomon Scandals is a little like a novel that a 19th century writer might have written on whaling. In
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
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
David Rothman at Large 