Speller-poets vs. reporters who ‘see through words’
Twitter has been abuzz with talk about The Price of Typos. Here’s the angle in the essay that most intrigues
Category: Media
Russia’s female Jon Stewart: Alyona Minkovski wittily ridicules U.S. debacles on global media network
Standard & Poor’s is right about the US. political process, even if the financial downgrade was crap. The process is
How to ‘Scandalize’ your book group—either the online or in-person kind
The Solomon Scandals is fiction—a mix of suspense, tragedy and satire—but more than a little history lurks within in it.
‘Conde Nast Maidens’ vs. grubby defense workers as terrorist bait
Terrorists must love the Quarter Pentagon, aka BRAC-133, just off I-395 here in Alexandria, Virginia. We’re talking about 6,400 defense
‘Tabloid City’ vs. ‘The Solomon Scandals’: A quick, friendly comparison between Pete Hamill’s newspaper novel and mine
Pete Hamill is out with Tabloid City, a New York newspaper novel commanding its share of pixels, column inches and
‘Hillary Clinton deemed too sexy for Jewish newspaper’—so it zaps her from White House photo
Actually, any woman would have been too sexy in this case. In line with its no-females-in-photos rule, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish
E-trends and other fun for book people to mull over: A mix of reckless and not-so-reckless predictions
Note: This is an expanded version of my talk to the Washington Biography Group on Monday at Washington International School.
Writer’s tiny N.Y.C. apartment: Comfy or scary? I say it’s a mix. Time for Felice Cohen to try e-books as a space-saver?
";” alt=””> Felice Cohen is happy here. I’m not sure if I’d be, although I envy her ability as an
Torn between two e-books? Go for the one without Digital Rights Management, if forced to choose. DRM is the ‘Scandal’ of e-publishing.
In character, one of Rob Pegoraro’s last “Faster Forward” columns for the Washington Post is on Digital Rights Management, aka
David Rothman at Large 