Archive for category: The print medium

My new PowerPoint technique is unstoppable    (2011.01.11)

There’s a whole chapter in A Visit from the Goon Squad created in PowerPoint. And it works

Obvious question about David Carson’s new magazine    (2011.01.09)

Will Carson be laid out in Quark or in PageMaker?

‘Dude’    (2011.01.05)

Michael Cunningham: “What kind of word is dude for a boy like Mizzy to be using?”

‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive’    (2010.12.30)

Paul Ford: ‘Most prose born on the Internet is highly defensive. Everyone is braced for audience attack’

Claire Berlinski pulls rug out    (2010.12.24)

Claire Berlinski demolishes not only the sanctimony of the entire exercise of best-book-of-the-year lists but the undead premise of the entire publishing industry

Millionaire celebrity author puts out ‘tip jar’    (2010.12.17)

A-list humorist David Sedaris, who used to live in the south of France, used to put out a “tip jar” that raked in four grand

Magazine editor thinks like magazine editor    (2010.12.09)

Virginia Heffernan gets set straight by Graydon Carter. Oh, and the Ontario government flew her up here to give us advice last summer

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl

The crisis in book design (for once, averted)    (2010.12.03)

I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?