November 2009
8 posts
The Fall and Rise of Media by David Carr →
gillianmae:
Those of us who covered media were told for years that the sky was falling, and nothing happened. And then it did. Great big chunks of the sky gave way and magazines tumbled — Gourmet!? — that seemed as if they were as solid as the skyline itself. But to those of us who were here back in September of 2001, we learned that even the edifice of Manhattan itself is subject to...
Speaking of Bryan Ferry...
I was at a karaoke thing last night and someone put on Cyndi Lauper’s “Money Changes Everything.” For some reason it got in my mind that Bryan Ferry had written that song, which didn’t seem to make sense. But here’s what I was thinking of: Bryan Ferry co-wrote “The Right Stuff”—which was the first single from his 1987 solo album Bete Noir—with Johnny...
I talked about this at Thanksgiving dinner
The Future: When the Editors Hire the Publishers:
At a bar last night, I was talking to someone smart who made an excellent point: that a very quiet, revolutionary act in the history of publishing had just taken place. (This person compared this moment to Gutenberg, which might be a little bit far afield but not that far off!) That is that Joshua Micah Marshall is hiring a publisher for Talking...
A piece I wrote about Ben Bronfman for this past... →
Oh hi! I finally jumped into the year 2008 and got myself one of these things.
