Now that Apple has finally officially dropped the iPad bomb, technology experts are pretty much losing their shit about how the new iBooks interface and super slick design for reading will save the publishing industry. But if you really want to know what will happen to publishing in the future, ask a “comic book guy” [...]
Read the story »I’m a little ashamed that I contribute so unabashedly to the massive pools of ink bits spilled over the death of traditional journalism and what it means for our democracy, but in truth it’s a crucial question. As a young writer who has more or less committed myself to reporting the news for the rest [...]
Read the story »So I didn’t get a San Francisco Panorama. They were sold out everywhere and generally inaccessible. This means I’ll have to fork over sixteen bucks for it instead of five because the fine folks over at Mcsweeny’s either 1) didn’t want to sell that many for only five bones, or 2) because they radically underestimated [...]
Read the story »Last week I joined the scores of enthusiasts crowded into the basement of the Park Branch Library in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury to listen to Rock and Roll obscurist Richie Unterberger drop some knowledge. Unterberger curates screenings of rare concert footage and lectures every other month, and if you haven’t been, you’re missing out.
This particular lecture [...]
Saturday’s Impulse Shopping:
Yesterday I was reading a friend’s copy of the Nation, and I started feeling guilty about not subscribing to some of my favorite magazines and thereby contributing to their decline and demise. I browsed their websites determined to spend at least some of my stimulus money propping up quality journalism.
I discovered that, yes, [...]
