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February 28, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Reporters vs. publishers and editors: On IQs, faulty edits, a Knopf editor and an unnamed columnist

The Solomon Scandals is a reporter’s novel, with editors and the publisher in the way of truth and decency. If

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February 27, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

The Washington Post, Sally Quinn and the Mink Stole Ladies: How much VIP-watching is too much?

How closely should the world follow VIP journalists and politicians and—for that matter—celebrities in general? “Newspapers spend too much time

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February 22, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Sally Quinn wedding feud: Don’t fire Ms. Quinn — turn her ‘at large’

My “Don’t fire” headline is for the benefit of out-of-towners. As a close friend of the Grahams, the owning family

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February 22, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

The Sally Quinn post

It should be online by 7 p.m. Eastern tonight, and, yes, it’s mostly sympathetic toward her. I’ll make my case

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February 20, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Rexwood Garst and the darker side of ‘meritocracy’ in journalism, politics and other fields

In The Solomon Scandals, I have a little fun with a hyperspecialized Yalie named Rexwood Garst, a reporter at a

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February 14, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

A Valentine’s Day lesson from P. G. Wodehouse

Carly is asleep now, but I know my first order of business when she wakes up. Happy Valentine’s Day! V

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February 9, 2010 GSA / The Solomon Scandals

Martha N. Johnson: GSA’s new leader vs. dirty politics—the ‘Solomon Scandals’ angle

A sad and bizarre update: Here. Margo Danialson, Oberlin B.A., is reporter Jon Stone’s partner in crime or anti-crime in

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February 2, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

Why I feel like Billy Pilgrim: ‘The Solomon Scandals’ as a time-warpy book

Was it Jerry Ford or Jimmy Carter who sat in the Oval Office when I finished the original draft of

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January 30, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

‘The Rothman Scandal’: What’s good for the Solomons is good for…

Beth Solomon of TheGeorgetownDish is a good sport about the existence of a D.C. novel with a villain named Solomon:

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