Archive for category: The print medium

Print-hostile pages    (2010.08.05)

New York outdoes itself in fucked-up “print-friendly” pages

How to ‘renew’ Toronto’s national newspaper    (2010.07.19)

What I told John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail. In short: Why did you ever believe Mathew Ingram on the topic of comments? (Now with update after off-topic caterwauling from Carl Wilson)

Retraining readers of an industry organ    (2010.07.19)

A solicited proposal for a column on E-book production in Quill & Quire. Now, what do you think happened to it?

Design book of the year    (2010.07.17)

100 Years of Menswear by Cally Blackman tells a gripping tale largely through pictures

Twitterianisme    (2010.07.15)

Edmund White, in City Boy, foresees endless streams of distraction

Travis J. Nichols’ ‘ugly stick’    (2010.07.15)

Travis J. Nichols will never figure this out, but “E-books” are perfectly capable of “formatting” poetry, not that E-books have “formatting”

‘Absurdistan’ M.I.A.    (2010.07.11)

Autobiographical details Gary Shteyngart wove into his zippy, juicy profile of M.I.A.

Not quite open-source literature    (2010.07.09)

Nic Boshart: “Tech people write blogs on how to do what they’re doing. They participate with other people in their fields to build better things. They purposely interact with outsiders to help them learn for free.… What do publishers do? Close Book Expo America to the public”

Ambiguous kilmerpurcellian bons mots    (2010.07.09)

Can you understand what euphoniously-named homosexualist writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell is saying here?